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ITS BASIC PRINCIPLES 

AND PRACTICAL 

FORMULAS 



By A. A. Lindsay, M. Z). 



* * I carve the marble of pure thought, 

until the thought takes form; 
Until it gleams before my soul, 

and makes the world grow warm; 
Until there comes the glorious voice, 

with words that seem divine. 
And the music reaches all men's hearts, 

and draws them into mine. " 



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The Basic Principles - - - 


Page 

Nine 


Psycho (Suggestive) Therapeutics 


Thirteen 


How to Treat Disease and Habits 


- Nineteen 


Hypnosis— How to Produce and Use 


Thirty-one 


Suggestion in Moral Reform 


Thirty-five 


Intelligence of the Cells 


Thirty-nine 


Cell Communication and Co-operation— 
Cell Insanity . _ - 


Forty-three 


Telepathy . . . - - 


Forty-seven 


How to Become a Psychic 


Fifty-three 


Some Psychic Phenomena 


- Sixty-one 


Chemistry of Body Modified by Emotions 


Sixty-five 


Absent Treatment - . _ 


Seventy-one 


Truth About Evil Thought Transference 


- Seventy-five 


Scientific Inspiration - - - 


Seventy-nine 


The Chemistry and Psychology of Love 


Eighty-nine 


The Mother and Her Child 


Ninety-five 


Faith, Hope and Trust, Psychologically 
Speaking - - _ - 


Ninety-seven 



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^ O say that the cure of disease is by mind power, or to say The Basic 
\^^ that curing takes place because of mind over matter, or Principles 

^^'^ to say that mind cures disease, when an idea is introduced 
into it, because it is controllable by suggestion, is not sufficiently 
definite in this day when exact knowledge is the standard. 

This book is for the purpose of defining what mind depart- 
ment communicates between man and the objective world; what 
department communicates between man and the sub-conscious 
world ; what department forms the ideas and another that makes 
these become reality; how the body is transformed into conformity 
to the idea ; how permanent character is established, item by item, 
in accord with the idealizing. Then it is a book that deals with the 
powers, attributes, qualities and classifications of all the mental 
functions of the individual and the methods of their working, 
and formulas for directing their operation for definite results. 

It has been in the human conception to regard the sun because 
it manifested its wondrous power in heat and light beneficently, 
as the source and sum total of power, and so was chosen as an 
object of worship. The earth and other members of the planetary 
system, and sideral regions have likewise been looked to by men 
as Deific and all; lightning with its consequent thunder, indeed 
all the elements, birds and animals and reptiles and sometimes a 
man, and again members of the human body, all, all have been 
and many of these are yet regarded as the ultimate and the all. 

With this view of human history we must concede the 
tendency of the human mind is to limit his vision and declare 
that this, his little horizon, is all there really is, or can be, and 
it therefore is almost excusable that the man who has seen some- 
thing of intellect, saw it capable of great development, saw it 
might solve problems of science, mathematics, and encompass the 
earth through his constructions should conclude the intellectual 
department of man was all the mind he could possess. The same 
law that limited the expansion of comprehension, when all power 
was by supposition concentrated in the sun, prevents the percep- 
tion of any human power being beyond that of mind, as it obtains 
knowledge through the sense department and expresses it, just 
like if one held a red glass before a green object, and it looks 
black, or looking at a blue object with a yellow glass it seems 
black, or to the man who has always looked at this objective 
world through blue glasses, declares all its properties are blue, 
so to the individual who has never perceived anything except 
through the senses, he determines the sense or its objective mind 

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with its will and its reasoning, constitutes all the man is or may be 
mentally. However, an acquaintance with the soul, with its per- 
ceptive and expressive power, has caused us to analyze the direc- 
tion of his mental activities. I will discuss herein later the various 
sources of discovering that there is in man something beyond 
sense perception and reflex action, but only declare the truth 
of the discovery now. 

The scientific study of another department of mind, which is 
spoken of as the subjective or psychic division has been mainly 
through hypnotism, which in the hands of the scientific student 
has disclosed mental powers, so different as well as so superior 
to the phenomena of the ordinary consciousness that the next 
serious error to thinking the intellectual of the objective was all 
the mind, was to conclude that there are two minds. The authors 
who have helped us greatly were under this impression of duality, 
and almost showed a line of demarkation between the "sub- 
jective and objective minds." 

Further researches convince us that there is but one mind 
or soul in the individual, and this we may correctly define as 
manifesting, so far as our usual states are concerned, conscious 
and sub-conscious. The sub-conscious may be well described 
under the title of the psychic department, and so the terms "sub- 
conscious or psychic powers," when speaking of the subjective 
mental functions are correct. 

But to declare a man is two men is no more correct than to 
say that because there are phenomena of light that illumines 
our buildings and the power that hurls our cars through the street, 
are two forces instead of the one force of electricity with different 
forms of expression. The quality of speed and power to draw 
should just as much require that a horse be two horses as that 
one mind must be two, else it could not do such widely different 
things. The clearest statement of the truth as it is, is this: Man 
is one entire soul (I use the word in no religious or theological 
sense, but as being the only word that possesses the meaning, 
comprehending life, mind and immortality in one word) having 
a body with many members, for the purpose of a multiplicity of 
acts and varied, and the two very distinct forms of mental 
expression. It is just as though soul had appointed a depart- 
ment of itself to preside over the senses, give and receive impres- 
sions, as to the physical world, collate the data of that world, 
reason upon it, form conclusions, which it may transmit to the 
soul and there record in perfect memory, where it shall remain, 
unless an equally forceful suggestion either neutralizes or sup- 
plants it, and while it is there, it is a part of the character, or the 
individual. The normal situation would be where the objective 
consciousness attended strictly to its appointment, as above, for 

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it trespasses upon the psychic department when it tries to order 
the functions of the body, for the sub-conscious department, situ- 
ated to know the state of every atom of the body, can never 
delegate to the voHtional department the office of presiding over 
the composition and function of the body, for there are no means 
to know through the senses, as to the states, of the cells, either in 
their chemistry, or their mentality. 

To show that the objective department of mind communicates 
with the objective world, and that the psychic or sub-conscious 
department is the seat of the emotions, the permanent reservoir 
of inherent knowledge, is possessed of the intuitive faculties, the 
department of inspiration, invention, of art, is possessed of a 
perfect memory, and the attribute of fore-knowledge, the latter 
holding the experiences, yet to come to the individual, and is 
possessed of even creative power with regard to the body, and 
does preside over tissue changes through cell reproduction, as 
well as controlling all of the functions' of the body, is the chief 
lesson in psychology, and in practical soul culture is of first 
importance. The infringements upon the office of the sub-con- 
scious department through usurping of authority by the objective 
is the source of silencing the psychic department, out of which 
there should be constantly flowing its superior powers. People 
try, they try to play musical instruments ; they try to be orators ; 
they try to invent by calculations, and by reasoning, or intellectual 
power, and in business they try by objective force to acompHsh 
their excellence, and ingloriously fail, though within them, but 
in the sub-conscious, there is every qualification to do and to 
be all they would aspire to ; the sick try to cure themselves upon 
the same principle. So the musician, who must go through objec- 
tive training under the usual formulas will finally discover that to 
sing, he must let the voice give expression, make it never; that 
to be an artist in painting there is no art where they objectively 
try, but it has to flow, so to speak. In every form of art, that 
which distinguishes the individual in his aim is that which declares 
him inspired instead of mechanical. No further emphasis or decla- 
ration is necessary to show to anyone convincingly that all superior 
powers must be acquired through bringing the subjective into ex- 
pression. Since the excellence of art, music, literature, etc., excel- 
lence in business, social affairs, teaching as well as invention, and all 
other traits, properties, expressions, powers previously mentioned 
as belonging to the sub-conscious mental department, really do 
exist even to a degree to make those who avail themselves of 
them, to become perfect in health, appear as veritable geniuses and 
possessed of well rounded character, we will now take up the 
matter of formulas to bring out of the soul the expressions of 
its powers, just as we would have them to appear in our lives. 

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^•^ S stated in the previous chapter, all power over the body Psycho 

/\ is in the sub-conscious department. That being literally (Suggestive) 
'^^ ^ true, that the sub-conscious mind preferably called the Therateutics 
soul, presides over the body as to its chemistry, its function, and 
structure, including cell vibration, cell functioning, cell reproduc- 
tion; modifying and controlling the forces as temperature and 
electricity, absolutely determining the nutritive and eliminating 
processes, and as you may readily see, atom by atom, cell by cell, 
creates the body. 

Every experience, clinical, hypnotic, or in the observation of 
normal or abnormal states proves that that power spoken of as 
the sub-consciousness or the soul, operates under suggestion. The 
first classification of phenomena that we will deal with under the 
proposition that the soul, in its subjective department, creates 
and controls the body, as indicated, and is itself controlled by sug- 
gestion, will be psycho (suggestive) therapy. 

In the ordinary use of the word suggestion, we would mean 
the introduction of an idea into the objective department of 
the mind, but when we speak of the Science of Suggestion, we 
mean the introduction of an idea into the soul. When a patient 
comes into my office and I tell him in his active state that his 
rheumatic symptoms are beginning to disappear, and will soon be 
entirely overcome; that the cause of the pain is being removed; 
that the uric acid will cease to be in excess; that the pain and 
swelling are going ; I have introduced into his mind the idea con- 
sistent with these words, and he looks at me incredulously and 
informs me he does not believe a word I have said. 

None of the conditions occur as I said they would. Another 
person comes to me in the same condition. I say the same things 
to him and he believes what I say, and says so, and the pain and 
other symptoms begin disappearing, his entire cure ensuing. 

The practice of that kind of suggestion cannot be called scien- 
tific, for there are no fixed, but haphazard results. If we are 
applying fixed laws, we will always get the same results in using 
the formula; and this experience has been that of many physi- 
cians who thought the mind power had efficiency, but having 
given the suggestion to the objective, as in the first instance above, 
and sometimes getting no corresponding results, they have pro- 
nounced against suggestion as never being efficient. 

In the first instance of the rheumatic sufferer, I introduced 
the idea into the mind, and he, being incredulous at once, offset 
the idea by his auto-suggestion. The thought never went beyond 

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his objective mind, and the decision that he registered in his soul 
was that he would not be benefited, and of course he got no relief. 
In the second instance, under the same physical conditions, the 
idea was introduced into the same objective mentality, but he 
believed with that mind, and weighing evidence that applied to 
him, he came to the conclusion that he was being cured of his 
disorder, and all the symptoms disappeared, and along with them 
the cause. 

With his mind he registers that decision in his soul. In other 
words, the belief of his mind when it reaches his soul is faith. 
It is faith, expectancy, in the soul that cures all diseases, regard- 
less of the method adopted to reach that faith. No disease was 
ever cured until the expectancy of the soul was established. 

Scientific suggestion means then the introduction of an idea 
into the sub-conscious department of mind, the psychic depart- 
ment, usually spoken of as the soul. This idea may be introduced 
in the active state of the patient by his accepting with his mind 
and passing down to the soul the idea, thus giving his objective 
co-operation with the positions suggested. It is so seldom that 
the patient with his mind can believe implicitly, not carrying even 
a shadow of doubt to the soul, that dependence upon suggestion 
given in the active state is not warranted. There is a law of 
suggestion, because the laws of the soul are as fixed as the laws 
of chemistry, magnetism, electricity, or gravity. The idea that is 
fixed in perfect faith upon the soul will compel answer involving 
even a changing of the organism chemically, structurally, or func- 
tionally. It believes all the mind tells it; it builds upon wrong 
expectancy, as eflfectually and as surely as upon the correct. 
Under a wrong suggestion the soul will change the body to the 
abnormal; under a right suggestion it will perfect all of the 
physical organization. 

We have now briefly outlined the power that is in the patient 
that heals his own body, and we will now illustrate how to get 
access to that power to produce the phenomenon of cure. Thera- 
peutic suggestion contains as much in curing habits as it does to 
blot out disease or as being a power in character building. 

A young Englishman of 26 years presented himself at my office 
for treatment for stammering. His distorted countenance when 
endeavoring to speak would call forth the sympathy of almost 
any observer. His disorder had existed since the age of six or 
seven, and had its origin in his mimicry of a man whom he saw 
occasionally. He and his sister indulged in this sport-making, 
having no evil purpose, but kept up the practice voluntarily for 
a time, when he found that if he desired to speak normally there 
was involuntary stammering. This grew upon him until it was 
with the greatest difficulty that he could make himself understood 

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at all. His education was fair in general lines. He had fitted 
himself for book-keeping, and, being an adept accountant, could 
have commanded the best position and salary, but for his defective 
speech. He had been through several institutions in this country, 
that had various methods for treating such a case, but he said 
the exercises seemed to have made him more self-conscious 
and he had met with no improvement. I applied the science of 
suggestion in his instance. He seated himself comfortably in 
my treating chair. I instructed him to thoroughly relax his body 
and let his mind wander as it pleased. The condition of his body 
and the state of his mind favored the best passivity, the latter 
being essential before suggestions can best be addressed to the 
sub-consciousness. I suggested "From this moment you will have 
better control over your organs of speech; there shall be less hesi- 
tancy at the beginning of your sentences; you will not become 
violently entangled in the midst of the sentence, and no letter or 
word shall be a serious obstacle to your pronunciation ; your nerv- 
ousness in all forms shall be overcome, and you will be better in 
all respects from this moment; the distorted countenance shall 
disappear, as no involuntary action of the facial muscles shall take 
place; you will become less conscious of self and you shall feel no 
discouragement at any remaining evidence of your disorder, for 
you will expect a perfect cure, and will know that any delay is 
because of the long established habit." I probably repeated this 
form of suggestion five or six times audibly during the half hour. 
I mentally suggested the same thing during the silent moments. 
These treatments were given three times a week during two 
months, modifying the form of the suggestions in that as the 
case advanced I ceased to refer to the old conditions and giving 
negative suggestions and gave the positive suggestions of har- 
monious speech and perfect control over all the organs of speech 
and muscles of the face. 

Of course this was a disorder purely of functions. The feat- 
ure of habit was as profound as could be in any instance. How- 
ever, neither habit, heredity, or any other form of mental impress 
can be impressed more deeply than in the soul itself. That being 
the case since in the passive state, we get free access to the soul, 
that has been wrongly impressed, and remove the error, plant 
and cultivate new habit, then this comes out as natural expression. 

The soul is ever striving for moral and physical harmony, and 
because of that it took much less time to plant order in the soul 
than it did the disorder. The gentleman had to break law to 
obtain defective speech. He had only to bring himself in harmony 
with law to correct his speech. 

I will not recite a series of such cases, for this is a type 
of many such habits as stammering, facial or eye jerkings, or of 

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involuntary muscular movements that may have the feature of 
habit in any parts of the body. This case and many others of the 
kind show to be cured in a month and sometimes less, but from a 
long experience, I know that to eradicate one habit and establish 
another should engage repeated attention covering a reasonable 
period of time. This has been my rule for the last five or six 
years, during which I have observed no relapses, whereas four- 
teen years ago I many times saw that dismissing a patient 
immediately upon their appearing well would sometimes mean 
relapses. 

The manner of giving a suggestion to this patient is just Hke 
that I have used of late years in all cases, namely : quiet, confident, 
natural, soothing, and sympathetic. There is no place in sugges- 
tive treatments for violent manner of expression, nor loud tones. 
This young man took shipment for England to be with his friends 
that he had previously left because his disorder was humiliating 
to them as to himself. Of course this case was one in which the 
organs were all present and all right, but sometimes even where 
there is surgery necessary to make it possible for an individual 
to speak, still the operation might not produce a cure without 
suggestions being given that would overcome the habit of stam- 
mering. Outside of this particular form of disorder, many 
surgical operations fall short of their purpose, in the absence of 
suggestion, for suggestion and surgery must co-operate to estab- 
lish right organic conditions and functional control. 

Insomnia is probably the most easily responsive disorder of 
all the conditions where the nervous system chiefly is involved. 
Mrs. R., a patient of about thirty-five, belonged to the society set 
in San Francisco. She could not sleep except by the use of 
drugs, the most of which she had exhausted, and from none of 
them did she get any refreshing sleep. She was placed in a chair 
and made comfortable, and the usual processes adopted for pro- 
ducing the passivity, and being quite responsive, I began her 
suggestive treatment at once. The words I used were like these : 

"Immediately upon retiring to-night you will find a drowsiness 
overcome you quickly, followed by an unconscious sleep. During 
the night, whenever you shall awaken, it will be only for a 
moment, and you will immediately fall back into a refreshing 
sleep. In the course of the night you will get at least six hours' 
sleep, and in the morning you will be conscious of having had a 
most refreshing slumber. You will be so glad that you have had 
that sleep without any drugs to compel it. You will not desire any 
medicine again to produce sleep. You will not feel the loss of 
it in giving it up entirely." 

This case and all of the kind have been treated usually three 
times a week for two weeks or a month according to how long 

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a period of time the insomnia had previously existed. The idea 
of progress in the case is planted with the beginning of the treat- 
ment, and is always observed until we can truthfully say that the 
disease and its symptoms have all disappeared and will never 
return. The beginning practitioner should carefully observe the 
lessons herein taught pertaining to aspiration. That is, the patient 
does not receive the suggestion at the first treatment that he is 
going to be perfectly well when he is aroused from his passivity, 
or that immediately upon being treated at any sitting there has 
been such action that none of the symptoms of the disorder will 
ever appear again, that you will always suggest improvement and 
yet observe conservation, that you may avoid deceiving the soul 
of the patient which you were addressing. Such an impress is 
made by the chronic condition that it is very rarely indeed if ever 
possible for one to absolutely remove all symptoms at a few 
sittings. Usually there is a necessity to overcome disease, but 
also to establish a health habit. You should hold your patient 
under treatment until that has been accomplished. In cases of 
insomnia, especially with people represented by this lady, you 
will nearly always have to cure a drug habit, as well as to restore 
the equilibrium of the nervous system, so that the patient can 
sleep naturally. 

Insomnia is usually indicative of other departures from the 
normal which need attention, for though it be the most prominent 
symptom and may be the chief cause of the patients application 
for treatment, insomnia itself may be incidental to the habits or 
diseases of the patient. Psycho therapeutics is a method of treat- 
ment by which we can eradicate all of the cause, whatever it may 
be and however numerous and peculiar the disease's symptoms 
may be. The patient's general condition should be taken into con- 
sideration, and whatever is abnormal should be suggested away, 
and we usually find that with the disappearance of the symptoms 
the cause has also gone. To compel sleep while there were condi- 
tions in the body being neglected, would be no better practice 
by suggestionists than is that followed by the medical man that 
deadens his patients with an opiate. We have no occasion to 
benumb the sensibilities, for the soul is a power that could do that 
and it will more readily correct conditions than it would produce 
abnormal states. If the midnight luncheon, or other practices 
of the patient are the cause of sleeplessness, always instruct the 
patient that wilfully breaking the law always must pay its penalty. 
Instruct for correct habits and hygiene, along with even as force- 
ful a method of correcting disease as suggestive therapeutics. 

In the instance cited full observation was given to all of these 
phases and her cure was perfect. 

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"^ri HAVING practiced drug-giving too long, have seen the How to Treat 

fl remedial agency of drugs too often to think for a moment Diseases and 
^^ that that form of medication should be abandoned entirely fJabits 
and to appoint psychic methods as the solitary means of treatment 
in all cases. Suggestion, I mean scientific suggestion, which is 
suggestion to be given in the passive state, will go hand in hand 
with any other methods. 

In the hands of the specialist demonstrations have been in 
the main confined to those cases pronounced incurable, having 
been the rounds of all other forms of treatment. Such a large 
percentage of cures when dealing solely with that class is a 
marvelous fact. 

Then, since we know any individual, even an infant, is a fit 
person to be treated by suggestion, it may be well at this time 
to define who is adapted to administer the treatment. There 
are some reasons why a physician or known healer would be the 
most efficient suggestor. The purpose in every instance is to 
obtain an expectancy in the soul of the patient, and a man who 
is already great in reputation has earned the confidence of the 
patient, which will be the basis of grounding faith. 

The critical reader is supposed to think that a contradiction 
is made in the statement that an infant is also a promising candi- 
date for treatment by suggestion when expectancy is the basis 
of cure. 

When we reach that department of these writings dealing 
with transference of thought from soul to soul, you will appre- 
ciate what expectancy can be awakened in the soul before words 
could be consciously understood. 

As I have stated, the specialist who has reputation would be 
the most efficient man as a general thing in giving treatments by 
this method or any other method as for that. However, the first 
essential of an operator, the chief among them all, is common 
sense. The next is sympathy. And if common sense does not 
include tact, we will make that the third essential. Firmness 
or positiveness, or one who believes in himself and in his teach- 
ings ; in other words, sincerity ; calmness and ease and confidence 
of manner, and a voice that contains the magnetism and sympathy 
of love, for he has to be in this attitude towards his patient like 
a mother towards her child, which she comforts and soothes to 
sleep. 

What might be generally an ideal operator would not by 
everyone be considered the ideal, and so every patient can have 

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his notion as to the qualities that he wants to see embodied in 
his suggestor. 

If love and sympathy and common sense and tact are found 
in an individual, he can meet with practically universal success. 
Those qualities will win the way to the soul, and will be able to 
supply the needs of that soul. 

We will consider some of the diseases, and the method of 
giving suggestions in the passive state. I will recite two cases 
of eczema that have been successfully treated at my hands, and 
which are typical of their own class. 

Case one was a lady of between forty-five and fifty, presenting 
the symptoms of loss of appetite, indigestion, frequent headaches, 
insomnia, and general nervousness. She said she had had a 
breaking out of the skin on her chest and shoulders, and that the 
itching and burning were setting her crazy. 

Her occupation was that of a teacher. All the symptoms 
except that of the inflammatory condition of the skin, had existed 
for some time. Her nervous system had received a shock eight 
years before this, and she had been under medical treatment 
almost all of that time, for some disorder or other. 

She considered that her worst difiiculty, when she came to me 
was that of indigestion, practically all of her dietary had been 
withdrawn. She had been the rounds of the physicians who, 
one after another, withdrew the items of food, until she suspected 
that all the substances would disagree with her, and she realized 
her expectations. She was trying to subsist upon a little break- 
fast food when she came to me. 

She was so nervous that when she sat down and relaxed her 
body as best she could, and I requested her to close her eyes, it 
was impossible for her to keep them closed. Placing my fingers 
over her eyes, as I did not care to tire her eyes by gaze, and 
holding them closed, I began the suggestions. "You will become 
so calm, and all is so peaceful and quiet here that you will get 
very comfortable, and perfect composure will come to you 
instantly. This treatment is so soothing and you will receive 
an electrical balance. You feel better already, so calm mentally — 
indifferent to your surroundings and feelings. You feel you can 
receive the suggestions with your whole being; you will realize 
all the changes I shall predict for you; you will get many more 
hours of sleep to-night, and the moments you are awake you will 
be free from worry, anxiety or fear, and have only most delight- 
ful thoughts during that time. Immediately after this treatment 
you will feel hungry; your appetite for food will return at once, 
and when you eat you will take no thought that your food will 
disagree with you. I shall not detail your items of diet — I want 
you to eat a general mixed dietary and have no fear or other 

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thougfht about food after you do eat and you will find every meal 
will be taken care of properly, and you will want to partake of 
three good meals daily and regularly. Your stomach will perform 
its offices in secreting the right fluids to treat the food — its muscu- 
lar and nervous activities shall be normal. The liver will perform 
its appointments naturally, and the intestinal functions be effi- 
ciently carried on. The assimilation of your food will be per- 
fect; every cell shall take from your food the elements needed. 
The irritation of the skin, showing lack of elimination, there will 
be opening of the pores, perspiration shall be caused, and every 
other eliminating department shall be stimulated. Improvement 
in every direction shall continue from this moment until you are 
perfectly well in all respects. Soon you will be sleeping all night 
long, like a little child; your eating shall be ample and regular, 
and you will be anxious to eat at every meal time. Your nervous 
system has during this time found its equilibrium, and this quiet- 
ness and calmness and control over your system shall become the 
usual, and with all of this improvement in the nerves, in the 
assimilation of food and elimination of waste substances made 
perfect, the itching and painful and inflamed condition of the skin 
will quickly disappear and will never annoy you as it has done. 
You will be better, and continue to improve until quite well. At 
our next treatment you will become more deeply passive, and 
you will gladly close your eyes and become passive the moment 
you sit down in this chair. Continue bright and cheerful and 
hopeful, free from all worry from this moment. All right now." 

The last words "all right" are better than to say "wake up," 
because to the latter would always be the reply, "I was not asleep." 
This passivity that is possible to all, even to an extremely nervous 
patient like that described, is ample for therapeutic purposes, save 
in the exceptions mentioned elsewhere. 

One can hardly imagine the improvement that took place in 
this patient between the first and the second treatment, which was 
given omitting one day. "I have slept like a child and eaten with 
delight ; I do not have to use all my energies in scratching either, 
for the breaking out is disappearing fast." 

The second treatment was much like the first, being along the 
same lines to make permanent the improving, and during the 
treatment course, which was for a month, and given three times 
a week, suggestions were made with reference to the disappear- 
ance of disease symptoms and removing all memories of those 
disorders, and the establishment of the idea of perfect health in 
their stead. 

The cure of this patient was perfect along all lines, and she 
gained rapidly in flesh, for of course the improved nutrition and 
elimination made most marked impressions upon her appearance 

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and mental state. In some degree her general character and 
habit were impressed, but worry was a large feature in her nature, 
and she had very great burdens upon her, so in about three 
months, she, after the first course of treatment returned to me 
presenting many indications that she was threatened with recur- 
rence of former troubles. She demonstrated that the same causes 
will bring us the repitition of effects, and that even treatment and 
cure by the psychic powers does not make one invulnerable to the 
effects attending upon broken laws. Her teeth had been needing 
attention for several weeks, which occasioned suffering and nerv- 
ousness, and with defective mastication, she was suffering with 
indigestion. I sent her to a dentist who had studied at my institu- 
tion, who waited upon her without trying her nerves unduly, 
and she needed only three or four treatments when she was 
discharged well again. It will be observed by every practitioner 
that when a patient has been so quickly and profoundly affected, 
a time or two by suggestion seeming to get rid of the penalties 
attached to breaking laws, the tendency is to tempt nature too far. 
Under medical treatment, even though they might get well, they 
dread the disagreeable medicine and the experiences of illness, 
which has a very wholesome effect upon their care of themselves ; 
the comfort and care and pleasure under treatment by the sugges- 
tion method tends to make one indifferent to health observation. 

The principle upon which this lady was treated is the universal 
one under the psychic practice. The student will observe that 
treatment was not limited to the cause that brought the patient 
to the office ; that while the irritation of the skin, due to its inflam- 
matory condition was the primary cause of the patient applying, 
yet it received less attention when we began treatment than other 
conditions did. 

This should cause the pupil to study this case very carefully 
to note particularly that there is nearly always something wrong 
with the assimilation or elimination, and usually both; that the 
nervous system is always involved in some way or other in every 
disorder; that circulation is often defective; that the habits of the 
patient's life should be looked after, and a careful observance of 
hygienic practices and exercises must be considered ; that the 
patient who has had wrong expectations must be impressed as to 
how disastrous they are, as, for instance, in the above case the 
lady never swallowed a mouthful of food without supposing that 
it would in some way give her distress afterwards. 

The habit of discussing at the table those items of food that 
disagree with the speaker or someone else is a most deplorable 
thing to do ; and granting that something does disagree with him, 
he has no right to impress others with his eccentricity and upset 
their dietetics. 

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The patient described above had studied the principles involved 
in her treatment, and has successfully applied them in training 
her children from an educational standpoint, and is causing them 
to grow up in fulfillment of her ideal, physically and mentally and 
spiritually. Our greatest hope for the science of the soul is 
grounded in the rising generation. 

Case number two was a married lady past middle life, in good 
circumstances, with no occasion to either work or worry. Her 
difficulty was chronic eczema of the hands, or what we used to 
term salt rheum. The objective symptoms were the cracked skin 
so deep that bleeding would often take place. These places would 
open up at joints on the inside palms of the hands and the 
fingers, and with the beginning to scale off, there would be much 
itching. In fact, the itching also preceded the opening of the 
skin. Of course these places were quite painful, and they were 
so numerous upon each hand that it was difficult for her to put 
on her gloves or dress herself, and life was really made most 
miserable to her. 

At all times the various stages of these outbreaks were appar- 
ent, the healing of some, and the coming on of the new. She had 
been treated systemically, also locally by the usual methods, 
although the chief dependence had been placed upon the local — 
the external application of the washes and salves in general use. 
She assured me that there never had been temporary benefits from 
any treatment. 

A casual examination of the patient would have conveyed the 
impression that her general health was perfect. She said that 
she knew of nothing to complain of except the conditions of her 
hands. There was hypertrophy (thickening) of the skin of the 
hands, which I failed to mention above. I feel that it is good 
practice to consider such an outbreak as being significant of 
constitutional disorder. While there were no very marked dis- 
orders of the nervous system, yet there were some. 

There was overeating and lack of assimilation and a general 
clogged-up system. She would perspire excessively in some 
portions of the body, while an unpleasant dryness was present 
in others. 

She had had bronchitis for several winters. This had never 
been suggested as having any relationship to the condition of the 
hands, but who knows just what that relationship may have been? 
In looking over the patient's history and condition those were the 
items we noted. In view of the fact that the Christian Scientist 
sometimes succeeds in such an indirect suggestion as the denial of 
all disease, affirming that disease is only an idea, a shadow, cures 
following, one might be encouraged to treat a case like this lady's 
by simply giving the suggestions that the hands would get well. 

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The intelligent way to give the treatment, and that which T find 
is based upon principle, and always successful, is to remove, if 
possible, the primary cause by giving specific suggestions concern- 
ing all the changes that can possibly be related to the case. 

It is unnecessary to describe the method of preparing the 
patient for treatment over and over again, for nine-tenths of 
them are treated under the same process of sitting comfortably 
in a chair, where relaxation and passivity can be realized, and I 
adopt the same method that the mother would adopt who desired 
her child to go to sleep. That is, I say quieting words in a style 
that is corresponding, for the process by which I help the patient 
to passivity is identical with that of assisting one to go into the 
natural sleep. 

Passivity and relaxation and the indift'erence of the mind result 
in the depletion of the brain of its excess of blood, which is con- 
ducive to the right mental and physical state for receiving the 
introduction of the idea into the soul, which causes the soul to act 
promptly and effectually in producing the conditions suggested. 

There was no variation from the usual method in treating this 
chronic case of eczema. Her calmness, in fact, her temperament, 
was just the opposite of the nervous patient in case number one. 
Her passivity was somewhat interfered with by her frequent 
coughing. However, at the first treatment I aimed at the unload- 
ing of the system that was so overburdened with poisonous sub- 
stances, suggesting directly at all the sources of elimination, 
stimulating them all in the fullest possible extent, and probably 
repeating more frequently than any other suggestion that the skin 
would become active as an excretory organ. 

The nervous system was referred to, that it would be natural. 
The attention of the soul was brought directly toward building 
up the skin cells with the proper chemistry, suggesting that there 
would become the normal moist and oily condition of the skin; 
that it would throw oft* the excessive growth of the skin, as 
indicated by the growth of thickening, and that the skin would 
become normal. 

Those who expect every patient, regardless of what is the 
matter with him, to be cured instantly, will be disappointed in the 
instances where he has to make over tissue, for nature, stimulated 
by suggestion even, cannot make over an organ in a few days. 

I told this lady at the beginning that I wanted her to provide 
for two months' treatment, during which time I would get her so 
well under way that she would proceed to perfection of health 
alone after that. At these early treatments I emphatically sug- 
gested the disappearance of all the bronchial symptoms and asth- 
matic paroxysms. It was two weeks before I saw any impress 
made uppn the hands. After that time, for two weeks there was 

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very marked improvement in them. But about this time she took 
a severe cold and brought back an exaggerated bronchial trouble, 
with incessant cough, day and night, losing her rest, and having 
nauseau from the spasms in coughing. 

If I had been uncertain in the beginning as to whether 
there were any relationship between the difficulty in the hands 
and her bronchial affections, I would no longer have been, for 
within a few days after the cold fastened itself upon her, her 
hands were to all appearances worse than when I commenced 
treatment. 

I was not discouraged by this relapse, but I am satisfied that 
I shortened the period of her acute cold and bronchial difficulty 
by the suggestions given, that relieved all the symptoms of influ- 
enza, and she was soon back to the condition obtained before 
contracting her cold. 

At the end of two months, even with the relapse, there was 
very great improvement in the hands, and the cough had entirely 
disappeared. Only at the rarest did it occur. 

I advised two weeks of cessation of treatment, and that she 
would then return for another mbnth. Her treatments were given 
during the period of the three months, an average of two a week. 
The hands were entirely well at the end of the three months' 
treatment, and the cure was established. 

Among the hygienic measures advised in her case was the 
instruction to avoid irritating soaps as well as to observe cleanli- 
ness, so that I am sure that the cure was entirely due to the action 
of her soul under suggestion and the proper hygiene. She 
received no medicine during the period. 

It is peculiar that the question is always asked when one has 
been treated by a method that has not been in the medical books 
for the last hundred years, as to whether or not the cure is per- 
manent. 

I have said that this case was cured. That seems to me final, 
and the question of permanency can hardly attach itself in a case 
that is cured, for, if the patient should bring about the conditions 
like those that were present and caused the disease in years gone 
by, and would get the same effect again from a like cause, it 
appeals to me as being a new case, for, in the absence of a new 
cause no disease would appear. 

Case No. 12. A complex case was that of a young lady, 
twenty- two years of age, who had been seamstress in a tailor shop 
for a number of years, and was influenced to appeal to me for 
treatment. 

Her chronic trouble was Saint Vitus Dance. This was of six 
years' standing, and always more or less present, although the 
greater part of the time she kept at her work. 

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When I was called in her spasms were manifest in the whole 
body, including the face. She could not control her speech, or be 
understood. She was suffering from inflammatory rheumatism 
and hysteria. There was uterine congestion, although counsel and 
myself could not determine how much the congestion had to do 
with the nervous symptoms. 

We could locate no spinal trouble, and in her condition at the 
beginning of the treatment, relief of severe symptoms was of the 
greatest import, and a complete diagnosis was never made. 

She heard the physician who was with me in counsel say that 
she was hysterical, and that he did not know how much she was 
really suffering. She slapped him in the face w^hen he attempted 
to make an examination, and refused to have him present in her 
treatment. 

I was more fortunate in pleasing her, for I believe that hysteri- 
cal disorder is as much of a disease as anything else that we 
have to deal with. 

I was soon convinced that she was not simulating, because 
simulation is an act under the control of the voluntary mind, in 
which the patient, by the act of the will, imitates symptoms 
of disease. That which we call hysteria would be under the invol- 
untary mind, and the symptoms are not controllable by the will 
of the patient. For that reason, the merciless way in which such 
cases are often treated, justifies the contempt that the patient 
often feels for such physicians in their ignorance. 

Inflammatory rheumatism affected all the limbs, and at the 
joints, there was great pain upon pressure or movement. Her 
temperature was from 101 to 103. 

I did not feel justified in making the ordinary repairs to get 
her through the acute disease, but began to assure her at once 
that if she would listen to what I would tell her, that when she 
got up from the rheumatism she would have no more muscular 
twitchings ; that she would sit more quietly and calmly, and no 
jerking of the hands or feet, or the drawing of the muscles of 
the face. 

Of course she knew nothing about my methods or the prin- 
ciples upon which I promised such cure, but she seemed to believe 
in me, and she said that she had been taking medicine for six 
years, trying to get rid of her nervousness, and that she thought 
that in some way she ought to be cured. 

Owing to the acute conditions and the necessity for profound 
and quick effect upon the system, that might assist in the elimina- 
tion of the causes of the uric acid, which we found present, she 
was given purging medicine. 

By the second day she was made easy, having had a good 
night's rest and much sleep. There was no pain except when 

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certain portions of the limbs were moved. Her temperature was 
lower, and all the symptoms showed that they had been impressed 
by the first treatment. 

She became rapidly better of the rheumatic symptoms, and 
within a week was all over the acute difficulty. In the meantime 
I had been giving suggestions that the inflammatory uterine 
trouble was being corrected and that at her next period there 
would be such a perfect adjustment of the natural conditions that 
she would have no suffering ; that the processes should be normal 
in every respect, and that there would be absolutely no conges- 
tion after that time. 

I repeatedly suggested that the nervous system was being 
quieted, and that the muscular disorders would cease; that the 
habit of constantly keeping the limbs in motion would be over- 
come, and that she would have perfect control over every move- 
ment. 

She was treated daily during the period in which the rheu- 
matism was still in evidence. After that three times a week. 
The entire course was only a month, and at the end of that time 
there was not one symptom remaining of rheumatism, local 
congestion, nor of chorea, and she had gained a great deal in flesh 
and appearance. 

Her after history was that she returned to her former occupa- 
tion, and there was no return of the nervous symptoms. She was 
treated by audible suggestions in the lightly passive state, but she 
went into the natural sleep during the treatment. That often 
occurs and is a good omen. 

This book is not written for the purpose of a case record, and 
the idea in reciting these cases is not to convince anyone that these 
special diseases are more remarkably responsive to suggestive 
treatment than others, but because I desire to give illustrations of 
the literal wording of suggestions in the treatment of the case. 

The student will catch the idea of aiming at the removal of 
the cause when it is known to him, and in any event, to suggest 
the improvement of the case to begin at once, and to continue until 
cured, and to suggest the disappearance of every unfavorable 
symptom, giving each one a specific suggestion. 

It is not necessary for the operator or the patient either to 
absolutely know the correct diagnosis. It is a good idea to fall 
into the sensible habit of treating diseases by conditions than 
by names. 

There is a portion of this book to be devoted to showing how 
it is that the soul which we are addressing in giving therapeutic 
suggestions knows the correct diagnosis, for it is inherent in 
the soul to know the condition of every cell in which it resides, 
and it is present in every cell of every tissue of the body, so the 

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finite mind of either physician or patient might be mistaken, but 
the soul actually knows and gives a correct diagnosis many more 
times than it does indicate it, were it not for that, from our 
objective reasoning, we placed upon the soul a certain suggestion 
that certain disorders exist that in the beginning were not present. 

Every physician has already found out how helpful it is to 
allow a patient to tell him of his' own case in his own words. If 
he does not permit the patient to do this, but from the beginning 
of the examination asks his questions that suggest symptoms, he 
will never arrive at a correct diagnosis. 

So far as the above patient is concerned, it would make little 
difference except as to the pleasure of the pathologist, to know 
certain that the chorea was due to the rheumatic diathesis. My 
personal belief is that the uterine trouble was the primary cause 
of the nervous manifestations. The disorders of the female are 
particularly responsive to suggestion. The majority, both func- 
tional and ©rganic, are caused by expectancy. 

Within this same year I had occasion to treat a young man 
for the morphine habit. He was at this time twenty years of age, 
and at sixteen he was addicted to alcoholism and had taken the 
Keeley cure. He came out of that treatment with no taste for 
liquor, but with a desire to continue the hypodermic injections. 
He found it pleasing to have morphine in those injections, and he 
kept up increasing tolerance until when he was placed under my 
care he was using forty grains in twenty- four hours. 

This youth was suffering peculiarly when I first called, and 
he nonplussed me very much for the time being, but after getting 
him to rest for twelve hours, he was able upon awakening to 
tell how he had been using cocaine for two weeks, and so had 
taken a large injection of that drug along with his portion of 
morphine. His physician had been giving him all the chloral he 
would dare, and so I was unable to understand the situation, due 
to the three drugs all in over-doses. 

The wonderful power of the sub-conscious mind to create a 
tolerance in the physical, for what would at first be a deadly 
poison for two score of people is well worth attention for a 
moment in passing. It is on the order of other auto-suggestions, 
and is therefore a building process. The idea is first introduced 
by taking the minimum dose, and repetition is the method of 
re-impressing that idea, and presently it has grown to be an over- 
whelming suggestion as in this habit. 

The young man said he wanted to get rid of the habit of 
using these drugs, and if he had been addicted to the morphine 
habit only, I would have felt much encouraged by his expressed 
desire to quit, but it is very different when cocaine has been added 
to the habit of morphineism. The demoralizing effect of the 

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cocaine habit is greater than in any other drug addiction. His 
promise would be worth nothing; he might seem to be attending 
to treatment and obeying instructions, and declare he was well, 
and yet be practicing the same as before treatment commenced. 
Remember this ; never trust the word of a cocaine fiend. 

I placed him under treatment, and developed him immediately 
into excellent passivity. The suggestions given were as follows, 
and are typical of the best form to use in these cases. 

"You will cease to have the intense desire for the drugs, mor- 
phine or cocaine; the drugs shall become repulsive to you from 
this moment, and should you try to use the hypodermic needle, the 
pain in introducing it will be awful. The thought of this pain 
will prevent you from using the needle, and the disgust for the 
drugs will keep you from forcing your body to receive them 
in any form. 

"Every form of elimination shall be stimulated, thus removing 
promptly and entirely the poisons now in the body; and with 
this abstraction you will find a delightful, satisfied and peaceful 
state coming over you. You will not suffer any nervousness, 
mental depression or physical shock in ceasing to supply the body 
with these horrible drugs." In those days I treated drug habits 
by removal of the drug altogether and at once, but later I have 
found it better to permit a small dose at long intervals, instead of 
the perfect withdrawal from the first. 

I repeated the above suggestions, as usual, a number of times 
during the sitting of a half hour, always making a strong sugges- 
tion of improvement. I kept him under the watch of his family 
for two weeks. 

Through the sympathy of the father, who thought it impos- 
sible to make such an impression, from the first, as to have him 
free from suffering from the denial, he gave his son small doses 
of morphine by hypodermic injection, although the boy did not 
declare any desire to have it. 

The father had also taken the Keely Cure two times and 
got this idea of reducing, not abstaining. Since that time where 
the patient has been using enormous quantities, I permitted two 
grains to be given in small portions during the twenty- four hours. 
This would be lessened from day to day and stopped altogether 
in a week. In three weeks this case was cured of all his drug 
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^^^HILE I have stated in the previous chapters that the 
yjl/ hypnotic state as a rule is unnecessary in our practice 
^^^ of suggestive therapeutics, yet, as there are some excep- 
tions to the statement, I think it well to note these exceptions and 
this will make it incumbent upon us to have a thorough acquain- 
tance with how to produce this state and apply it in practice. 

Concerning the methods of producing the state of hypnosis, 
every operator has some special method that he prefers above all 
others. There is no objection to any of those in ordinary use 
to-day. Braid's method was to have the patient seated comfort- 
ably, then to look upwards at some bright object as a crystal, 
or a piece of silver, or a diamond, and he must have his eyes 
fixed at an angle of about forty-five degrees, and look intently, 
not removing his gaze for an instant. This would be continued 
until the patient's eyelids dropped involuntarily, even though 
the tears streamed down his cheeks before that occurred. Braid 
found the majority of patients remained in the hypnotic state 
for a time, or until he told them to come out of it, and that those 
who did not pass under the peculiar influence at one sitting 
would do so at future efforts. He also impressed his patients 
through the suggestive power of example, although he did not 
intentionally do so ; but when he allowed one patient to see another 
go into the sleep it was copied by the second. 

It will be noted that almost any number of patients could 
be treated at one time by Braid's method by allowing them to sit 
and gaze and go into the hypnotic state and come out of it at a 
word from him, the symptoms in the meantime having disap- 
peared, at least partially. If I had any occasion to produce the 
state in any large number of persons at a time, I should even 
in these days use Dr. Braid's method. As will be seen further on, 
there is never occasion upon which it is necessary to produce the 
effect on a large number. 

The method that I have used chiefly in my practice has been 
to hold some object at a distance of two or three feet in front 
of the patient's eyes, also at about an angle spoken of previously. 
But I do not continue that gaze until the patient's eyes are com- 
pelled to close, but only sufficiently long to tire the lids so that they 
will remain closed without any difficulty when I request the patient 
to close his eyes. I have found no evidence that there is any 
purpose in the gaze than to fatigue the eyes, so that the 
patient is glad to have them closed. After the eyes are closed, I 
place a finger in the corner of each eye, pressing upward upon 

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the nerves there which have such relationships to nerve centers 
as to assist in the quieting of the patient's mental action. 

Of course, the patient is comfortably seated, and if in a rock- 
ing chair, there is some support placed under the rocker, so that 
there will be no strain upon the muscles of his limbs, for perfect 
relaxation must be provided for and will occur before the patient 
can possibly be placed in the hypnotic state. 

The gaze at the object and the pressure upon the nerves in the 
corner of the eyes may occupy five minutes of time, and during 
the five minutes, I have continued to say in a somewhat monoton- 
ous tone, but surely a soothing one, that the patient is so com- 
fortable and quiet, relaxed and passive, that he can easily think 
of sleep, and what a desirable condition sleep would be; that all 
that I am saying and doing is soothing to his nerves ; that he feels 
perfectly at ease, has no fears, for he knows that everything is all 
right, and that there will be no violence of any kind, for he is only 
taking a good rest. 

Out of the many hundred that I have actually produced the 
hypnotic state in, I have never seen one instance where there is 
any nervous excitement, or anything else except perfect calm- 
ness and peace. Even by the Braid method, there is not often any 
nervous manifestation, but always in using the soothing method of 
the touch and reassuring words, there is nothing but the most 
beautiful and desirable occurs. 

It is necessary to explain to the beginner that the subject may 
be in a hypnotic state very profoundly, yet in the absence of sug- 
gestion, no effect be produced upon any of the senses ; he must 
learn that there is absolutely no change in the senses affected by 
the hypnotic state itself; that forgetfulness (amnesia) does not 
characterize the state even though it is deep. The loss of pain, 
or the inhibition of hearing only occur by specific suggestion. 

It being true that the deeper states result only from repeated 
sittings, we can make these much more quickly effectual if we 
suggest at the first sitting that at the next he will go more deeply 
in the passivity. His final state, if he reach hypnosis, is that in 
which he is susceptible to suggestion and will respond to 
any suggestion given him that is not contrary to his auto- 
suggestion. Following the method indicated above, repeat- 
edly for from one to five sittings, is requisite for an 
average person to be prepared for a surgical operation in dentistry, 
or other surgery, or diseases that call for the hypnotic state. The 
hypnotic state is chiefly valuable in laboratory demonstrations, 
where we want to show the phenomena of sub-conscious powers 
for surgery or treatment of epilepsy. In the treatment of epil- 
epsy, it has been found successful to produce the hypnotic state, 
and so train the patient that he would remain in the h^-pnotic state 

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for several days at a time. When the time is at hand when he 
would ordinarily have his epileptic attack, if he is placed in the 
hypnotic state, and especially in the cataleptic state, and kept in 
that condition over the period, one not only has the advantage of 
breaking up the periodicity of the paroxysms, but has the most 
favorable time in which to repeatedly impress the suggestions that 
none of the epileptic symptoms will occur. 

In giving the treatment by suggestion in such a case, the oper- 
ator should aim to counteract by specific mention all the symptoms 
that have usually been present in that particular individual, and 
also to suggest emphatically that the conditions causing the parox- 
ysms are being overcome. 

It is inherent in the soul to know what the cause of the disease 
is, but thus far it has not been possible for the pathologist to 
discover the cause of the attacks unless from the history there 
is a traumatic cause. Since the percentage of the epileptics is 
small, to the one who is in the general practice, we can see that 
the hypnotic state is very rarely necessary. 

In addition to the above, the importance of hypnotism in the 
laboratory work must be fully appreciated. Whatever advance- 
ment has been made in placing psychology on a practical basis is 
due to the study of that science through hypnotic demonstrations. 
Hypnosis bears the same relationship to psychology that dissect- 
ing the physical body does to the science of anatomy. In the 
absence of physical dissections, we know very little about the 
body, either in structure or function. Without the dissection 
of the mind we were just as ignorant as to the marvelous revela- 
tions that have come through our intimate association with all 
forms of mental action a*s made possible through hypnotized 
persons. 

I do not want to be thought by anyone to be making any 
apology for not using the hypnotic state in the practice of sug- 
gestive therapeutics. I simply quit it for the reason that it was 
unnecessary to produce this hypnotic sleep in order to make the 
suggestions successful. 

In view of the fact that it is not necessary to use this hypnosis 
in any general way in the practice, and with every decade it is 
becoming less a factor in psycho-therapeutics, I do not think it 
worth while to entertain a lengthy denial of the false charges that 
have been made against that form of mental phenomenon. It is 
a fact, however, that hypnotism and crime never did and never 
will enter into successful partnership. No person could be either 
the victim or the agent of crime through hypnosis, unless in reality 
a criminal already at heart. 

When my pupil has studied the subject of auto-suggestion, 
and has learned, too, that there is no unconscious state produced. 

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he will see it is not necessary to even make a defense under the 
ignorant claim that hypnosis could be a practical criminal agent. 

It is remarkable that it has not been generally known by oper- 
ators that there could not be an unconscious state in hypnosis. 
The modern psychologist knows that the objective mind is not put 
into abeyance or out of existence, but has been brought into one- 
ness with the superconscious mind or soul, which is more acutely 
conscious than the objective mind alone could be ; the soul becomes 
possessed of all the objective mind knows or controls, as well as 
inherently being possessed of the involuntary powers. This latter 
statement explains the seeming superhuman physical strength in 
one while in the sub-conscious state. 

I have said above that it has a more acute consciousness than 
the objective mind. This is proven by the discernment of sounds 
that cannot be caught in the active state. Indeed, all of the 
senses are intensified or exalted. Then, with increased physical 
power, heightened consciousness, telepathic rapport enables the 
subject to anticipate every movement of the operator, and, having 
access to all the knowledge of the objective, plus that of the 
soul, with its own inherent perceptions, if a crime were contem- 
plated at all by the operator, one would be in a better state for 
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y HUS far I have indicated the great value of practical psy- 

L^ chology when pertaining to the physical body. I now 

^^"'^ want to consider the subject of the relation of psychology, 

especially with the department of suggestion to character changes. 

The value of suggestion as the science in moral reform is 

beginning to be appreciated, and I hope to have every parent 

and teacher and every other good citizen informed as to the 

possibilities and how to use the subjective mind in its character 

building capacity. 

I recall an excellent illustration in this line in my personal 
experience in my early days of practice when I was using the 
hypnotic state as a means to the best result in all kinds of sugges- 
tive treatments. A young man of 18 years came in answer to an 
advertisement of mine, which called for subjects that I could use 
in my class work in demonstration. He was so thoroughly degen- 
erate in appearance that I was on the point of dismissing him 
without investigating as to his adaptability to my needs, when it 
occurred to me that here is an opportunity to discover whether 
the germ of good ever does completely die out. Every character 
of evil habits mentionable or otherwise and dissipations and ex- 
cesses in every form were easily discerned. I first developed 
him in such a way as to give every physical demonstration such 
as anesthesia, catalepsy, also the various phenomena in hallucina- 
tions. I gave him suggestions which he had accepted, which pre- 
vented him from remembering when in the active state what was 
said or done during his hypnotic. After he had been so thor- 
oughly developed as a subject I began suggesting to him that 
he would commence to think about changing his habits. Even 
though he was in a deep passivity and I began talking upon his 
changing his desires, his countenance indicated his amusement 
at such an idea. I saw no promise of immediate response to 
those suggestions, but one day he mentioned to me about a certain 
companion of his whose intentions were of a nature that the boy 
and I agreed that he would certainly get into serious trouble and 
receive punishment. I advised my subject to caution the young 
man, and if possible prevent him from the evil thing. My boy 
was interested and engaged himself in behalf of his companion 
and informed me that he thought that we would keep him out 
of his trouble. I followed the line indicated here, telling him 
we would go into further partnerships to help his friends, and 
possibly we would get them out of many wrong ways. My ex- 
perience with this youth, who was so thoroughly a reprobate and 

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past having any interest in himself, except to gamble and car- 
rouse, yet who would take an interest in helping his associates 
into better ways, would prove that every individual is a savior. 
After succeeding in interesting him in the other individual, I sug- 
gested to him that if he and I were to help others that we at least 
should be ourselves what we required or advised in them. He 
responded to that suggestion, and of himself asked that I would 
help him get rid of the tendencies and overcome the habits so 
far as it was possible. He was an incessant gambler with cards. 
He seldom had any money except the small winnings, and he sel- 
dom purchased for himself even the required clothing. To assist 
him in freeing himself from the associations, I gave him a hyp- 
notic suggestion that he could not shuffle the cards; that his fin- 
gers would involuntarily stick to the card. He reported to me that 
he did not know what was the matter with him, that he could 
not pick up or let go of the cards, and that his companions had 
put him out, because they thought he was only making fun of 
them. I was along with this giving suggestions that he would 
have no desires for the place. I also gave the suggestion that it 
would be physical impossibility for him to lift a glass containing 
alcoholic liquors of any kind to his lips. That the odors, as well as 
the taste of any such stuff would make him desperately sick at his 
stomach. All of this proved out in his experience. These physical 
aids were very helpful in every way, and made it much easier to 
correct his habits than it would have been had we left the body 
demanding that which had been the occasion of habit, but by 
changing his desires from fondness to disgust, or inability physi- 
cally to perform or enjoy, we had made the treatment much more 
safe. These suggestions and others, as we saw them needed, 
I gave him during about six months. i\t the end of that time he 
had greatly improved in his appearance, and was very little of his 
former self in many of his aspirations. Where he simply would 
not work under any circumstances, he had become a good citizen 
and gone to work in the iron works. The reform of this young 
man would scarcely have taken place, even though I had him in the 
hypnotic state, had I not first interested him in reforming 
his companions and then to change his own practices to be consis- 
tent with what he was advising others. The first suggestions I 
gave him did not even awaken aspirations, but only aroused con- 
tempt, and I should like to give instances here leading to the dis- 
covery of how we are inherently disposed to help one another. I 
presume I would best make plain some features that belong to 
such cases. There is no objection to the hypnotic state under any 
circumstances, but as so few understand it correctly, it is well that 
any student of this subject should be fully assured that the hyp- 
notic state is not essential, but that a passive state is ample for 

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the purposes. Suggestions repeatedly given go just as deep, when 
the individual is passive and hears the suggestions, as if he were 
in the deep stages of hypnosis. The superficial individual might 
say that this boy was reformed against his will. In fact a man 
claiming the title of M. D. published that I did a most repre- 
hensible thing in changing this boy from a vagabond who had 
no hesitancy at any crime or practice, into a well-appearing, neatly 
kept, industrious, good citizen, because, said this man, I dethroned 
his will. The true situation all of this time had been that a little 
particle of conscience was telling this boy to be different, and 
therefore the soul or the real self had always willed that he 
be what he afterward became. It is true his objective, or sense 
department, preferred or willed to the contrary. The literal thing 
that took place in my treatment was to bring his objective will into 
co-operation with the will of his superior self, and his character 
and practice were beautified accordingly. 

Of course, with the exception of reform institutions, not many 
of us would have opportunity to treat such extreme moral con- 
ditions, but the lesson is here for every one, which is to realize 
that just exactly as there is the healing power in the patient with 
reference to his own body, and that power operates under sugges- 
tion, just so does that power abide in the individual with reference 
to his own habits or character. Then after we recognize the 
power and where it is, and under what law it acts, we are prepared 
to remove from or add to the habits or traits, whether they are 
for small changes, or the great reforms. Again, I want my 
reader to avail himself of the principles that have been revealed to 
me in my laboratory work, for although the hypnotic state was 
used in the particular illustration, the inestimable value of our 
lesson is in learning the principle. We see how the force of habit 
had become the prevailing suggestion that overwhelmed this boy's 
life. He not only willed to do wrong, but after his inclinations 
were changed he did wrong many times involuntarily, and to assist 
in overcoming the things that he yielded to, that he did not want 
to do, I gave him the suggestion that made it a physical impos- 
sibility to perform certain acts. This supported him while he was 
gaining spiritual strength. 

A practical lesson for the parent, after he or she sees from 
this case that the power is in the child and is controllable by sug- 
gestion, really being the soul, compelling expressions, that it has 
been made to really expect, then if that expectancy or habit is in 
the soul and is something that should be corrected, since we find 
that suggestions or ideas introduced into the soul, changes or 
determines its expectancy, regardless of what the method might 
be by which we could introduce that idea into the soul, if it were 
only introduced there it would work the change. The parent has 

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every opportunity to give these suggestions in the most forceful 
way. Let the child or other person go to sleep, while conversa- 
tion, consisting of commands, or prophecies that the habit or 
symptom will disappear, and though this may seem to be so simple 
as to appear foolish, yet it is being demonstrated in thousands 
of instances that the result comes as predicted. Again, we are 
proving* a principle, for if the soul is the power and is control- 
lable by suggestion and the child or other person becomes an 
expression of whatever is the ruling suggestion in his soul, then 
if the suggestion is impressed upon him, whether he is passive or 
active, or under emotion, it makes no difiFerence as to the result. 
It is true that in the active state one is not so susceptible to sug- 
gestion, yet if the active mind is made to absolutely believe, which 
it has a tendency to do under the constant impress of a picture, 
then the suggestion constantly repeated in his hearing may get to 
his soul, after which it comes out in expression involuntarily. 
Learning all that is embraced in these principles, the awful sugges- 
tions will cease to be given to children or to others, but the avoid- 
ance of unseemly word pictures will be rigidly observed. Every 
home almost needs revision under these revelations, for the family 
conversation, contentions and predictions, as interchanged between 
members of the household, would be regarded as actual realiza- 
tions that sooner or later would be complete. 

Our subject of moral reform has such far-reaching capacities 
that it takes in the suggestions that we give and receive in our 
daily lives, and so we come to this conclusion, based upon scien- 
tific demonstration, that the highest possibilities of the individual 
can only be attained when we say to another, or to oneself, only 
those words that represent what we would, under our highest 
ideal, want to become realized, for this is the process that first 
there is the thought and a repetition of the thought, the word 
picturing of the thought, then it is character, and character brings 
into form the perfect realization, even to materialization of itself. 



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Cells 



^ HE data which has been heretofore given would call up to Intelligence 
\^ every reader his personal experiences, in which he would of the 
^^*^ find abundant evidence to establish the firmest conviction 
that the principles of psychology, as we have stated them, are 
correct. 

I feel that the beauty of the simple way in which we have 
stated these facts and recited the therapeutic experiences is that 
it brings within the grasp of every one the practicality of all our 
claims. 

Every man has hundreds of demonstrations that he can recall 
with understanding now that he sees the basic principles under- 
lying the psychological phenomena. 

Not being accustomed to thinking of the subjective mind 
power, it is a little difficult at first to understand how it acts. 

A man is impressed with wonder the first time that he sees 
a magnet attract a metal, and even though insulation, as thick 
glass placed between the magnet and the metal, the attraction 
continued. He cannot through his senses appreciate how it is done. 

The same wonderment was felt when the street car was hurled 
by the invisible force of electricity through the streets. After a 
little while these things became so common that we give no 
thought, let alone wonderment, as we see the effect of a cause that 
few try to understand. 

The telephone and telegraph only lose their intensity in their 
approach to the marvelous because of their universal use. The 
wireless telegraph has not ceased to attract notice, but how soon 
we will be so accustomed to sending our messages without the 
wire, and yet without thought as to the phenomena! 

In psychic matters, we find that, as patients or operators, to 
become accustomed to the phenomena in such a manner as to 
feel no particular wonderment concerning them is helpful. 

For the sake of becoming familiar with psychic matters I take 
up the various phases of the question leading along all the roads 
to the one destination of the soul, the supreme power over the 
body. 

In taking up the question of mind in the cell, I bring the 
student to a point of view that he can see the whole question in 
its greatest simplicity. It soon becomes easy, when we study the 
science of psychology from this standpoint, to realize that the 
body is not the man. 

In our laboratory of histology we find that the animal body 
is comprised of microscopic organisms that we call cells. That 

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every tissue of the body, hair, nails, skin, muscles, nerves, bone, 
marrow, blood, brain and tissues that comprise the various special 
organs, every portion is made up of the tiny particles, the cells. 

In our chemical laboratory we learn that the elements present 
in all of the cells are the same, but the different proportion in their 
chemical compound determines the character of the tissue that 
each cell forms. Such being the case, any cell of any tissue 
would be a physical representation of the whole body. 

Now when these cells of all the tissues are in their places, and 
their perfect union exists, comprising the complete structure, such 
as a man's body, after having seen so many demonstrations, it is 
a matter of no doubt and of easy understanding that mind con- 
trols the organism resulting from the union of cells and their 
tissues. 

Many years back we began taking up the brain cells, and how 
the mind used them as its organ, but it is the modern psychologist 
who has combined his laboratories of chemistry, histology and 
microscopy with his psychological, that has made it just as scien- 
tific to speak of all the cells and the tissues being organs of the 
mind, as being spoken of the brain cells. That every cell is an 
intelligent individual of itself is of very recent revelation, and yet 
is capable of practical demonstration. 

We can take the cells from any tissue of the human body, 
and placing them upon the microscopic slide, bring the smallest 
amount of nitro-glycerin in proximity with the cells, and they 
make rapid flight and get as far away from the drug as possible. 
They seem to recognize the poison as a deadly enemy that they 
resist with all their force. 

In another experiment we will take some opium and put it in 
the place of the nitro-glycerin, and we will find that the cells 
make resistance an instant, and immediately give a quiver and 
succumb, as though the very aroma narcotized them. 

It is exceedingly interesting and instructing to deal with the 
cells in such examination with all the diff'erent drugs, but we will 
give just one more that will show particularly the point that 
we are making plain. 

Then in the third demonstration, we will use capsicum as we 
did the other drugs, when we find that the little individuals we 
have spoken of as cells, weave themselves up, even coming in 
touch with that stimulant. They embrace the capsicum with a 
friendly enthusiasm in marked contrast to the emotion with which 
they fled from the other classified stimulant, nitro-glycerin. 

It took mind in the cells to distinguish between the two stimu- 
lants, to determine which was the foe and which was the friend. 
Our great intellects have not shown as much intelligence as has 
been demonstrated by the smallest portion of a man's body. 

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The law of self preservation is inherent in the cells, and the 
above is one of the simplest proofs of that. When there is a 
destruction of some tissue of the body, the part is replaced by 
the reproduction of cells. That is true of every tissue of the body, 
because every tissue is made up of cells containing life or mind, 
and the law of reproduction governs every cell. 

We find that in the one cell animal the laws of self preservation 
and reproduction are inherent, and that is just as true of the indi- 
vidual cell wherever it is found and whatever it may be a part of. 
Whether it is fulfilling its function in conjunction with other like 
cells, or whether its office is fulfilled as an independent proto- 
plasmic entity, it is governed by these two laws. 

We find that the amoeba, the one-cell creature, recognizes its 
enemies and makes flight, intelligently selecting its hiding place, 
and that it recognizes the substances upon which it develops by 
appropriating its food, which actions demonstrate mind selection. 
In fulfilling its elements of development, it ultimately divides itself 
according to the law of its reproduction of its kind. 

The larger animals, representing the union of a multiplicity of 
cells, and each species having its peculiar requirements as to organs 
of self-defense and means of preservation, have increased powers 
of intelligent action. We find them with the tentacles with which 
to make successful combat, and it determines whether or not it is 
safe to enter into a physical engagement, or to take safety in flight 
and refuge in a place of hiding which it selects. We find this in- 
telligent action, and yet no brain organism, up to the crab. We have 
in these illustrations full evidence that mind is in the cells of the 
body; that the union of mind power of all the cells comprises 
the complete individual intelligence. We find in man a like or- 
ganism, so far as the cell is concerned, and so we conclude, 
reasonably, that mind is present in every part of man's body. 

No effort will be made here to prove whether or not there is 
one class of mental manifestations confined to the brain cells 
and another to the cells in other parts of the organism. There 
might be some evidence gotten together to indicate that the men- 
tality of all the cells of the body would constitute one class of 
mind function, and the brain have an entirely different class of 
functions to perform, and some reasoning might be adduced to 
indicate that the objective used the brain cells and the soul used 
the body cells. But for all practical purposes, brain and body 
compose the organs of the two-fold mental manifestation, and it 
seems simpler than to take the head off and say that we have in 
one portion the objective mind and in the other the subjective. 

So far as function is concerned, it seems that an individual cell 
has the power of reasoning, and of all other mental exercises 
save that, possibly of being conscious of itself. 

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'%^NDER normal conditions, just as the amoeba selects that 
IjT that which is food for it, so does the soul in the human 
^"^ body bring to itself that which it needs for health and 
sustenance. 

In a state of health, this numerous family, comprised of all 
the cells of the body, is in co-operation so perfect that each 
member is supplied with every need. 

It is inherent in the individual cell to know what it needs, 
and their united action in that department of the mind known as 
the soul prompts the selection that should be made for the bodily 
supplies. 

But, upon the question of food, as well as of morals, that 
still small voice from within only prompts, and does not compel, 
it being mind's prerogative to obey the soul or let the desires 
that originate in the senses, which act through the objective mind, 
have dominion. 

So, contrary to intuition, one breaks the laws of dietetics and 
hygiene, and forces upon the body that which cannot be applied 
by that intelligence that is presiding over assimilation. And so 
there is a shortage of the elements for all the cells of the body, 
or it may be that some especial tissue is a great sufferer from the 
substitution that man, in his free will, has chosen to offer as food. 

Nerve and brain starvation seems to be the most usual of all 
physical lacks. The soul does not cease its efforts to cause the 
mind to supply what is needed for the sustenance of the body 
in all its departments, for even through pain or exhaustion, or 
some other untoward symptom, it makes one aware of the need. 
He misinterprets this, creates wrong cravings, which he attempts 
to satisfy by giving to his body substances entirely foreign to 
nature, and the vital force, which is another name for soul, 
cannot appropriate the things substituted. It tolerates, but does 
not grow strong and perfect in the absence of the elements that 
are essential to every cell of the body. 

It may be that being compelled to put up with false condi- 
tions that the cell intelligence accepts the suggestion, finally, that 
that which is really abnormal is normal. So it carries out to the 
full limit of its power the suggestion that is given it, and inten- 
sifies the abnormality. This results in many peculiar functional 
disorders. 

The neuresthenic is a perfect bundle of those. He is a perfect 
demonstration of cell insanity, and the cells that are not acting 
sanely may be in one part of the body or another, or may be 

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The New Psychology 

present wherever a certain tissue exists that has become wrong in 
its performance. 

If this were strictly a medical book, I would work out to its 
full conception what is properly classified as insanity of the cell. 

We call it insanity, ordinarily, when the objective mind fails 
to perform its office properly, as indicated when the senses do 
not convey the right impression to the brain, and when one 
ceases to put the right interpretation upon the objects concerning 
which we form an acquaintance through the objective mind he 
is pronounced insane. When the cells, as individuals, or as a 
whole, cease to perform normally, that is just as truly insanity. 

It would be interesting to take up the diseases with which we 
are acquainted, and show to what extent the real condition is 
that of insanity of the cell. 

This we do know, that in the condition of disease law is 
broken and the soul is the power that possibly has, under wrong 
suggestion, produced wrong manifestations, and used its supreme 
power in the wrong direction. 

As the result of its various means of notification that the 
body needs attention, the patient decides to correct the evil, and 
then he finds that the soul is a forgiving power, ready to co- 
operate, anxious to receive that which will be food for it, con- 
taining the right elements to supply all of the needs of the 
organism in which he lives. 

The disordered conditions have been so impressed upon it 
that its continuation to preside over the vital systems will not 
correct the disorders, but it has to perform some especial, specific 
action before things can be corrected and adjusted. 

Mind, which has always been the sentry, must still be that, and 
issue instructions to the soul, in order to cause the soul to make 
its especial expression in the cure of the disease symptoms. 

Through the mind the direction must be given and the soul 
caused to expect a change for the better. The law governing 
thought action is the introduction of that idea into the soul, 
and the best form for that accomplishment is through suggestion. 

It is possible that the soul has been so impressed by mind as 
to have its faith firmly fixed in a certain material remedy. It may 
be a drug, or anything else in the universe. Grant the soul its 
conditions, and cure will follow. If its demands are for some 
process that cannot be met, then the soul's standard must be cor- 
rected by introducing a counteracting suggestion and substituting 
some other practical process, which may just as well be the exclu- 
sion of all material remedies, for the soul has to do the work, 
either in co-operation with material things, or accepting the sug- 
gestion and producing the corrections needed without any such 
means. It is able to accomplish the results desired through either 

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means. The exceptions would be in certain organic troubles where 
tissues have been so far consumed that reproduction of the cells 
of that tissue is impossible, because the parent cells are insufficient. 

For instance, in advanced consumption, there is not enough 
tissue left to, by the most rapid multiplication of cells possible, 
even under stimulant, supply that which has been destroyed. 

Another exception would be where a material remedy in 
which there was subjective faith of such a character as to cause 
a general revolt of the system when it was given. Nature co- 
operates with some remedies, but it certainly does revolt at 
others. 

Over-appreciation of the fact that the mind is in the cell is 
not possible to the operator or patient. It is a most valuable idea, 
because it makes treatment so simple and practical. 

It may be that the brain is the central point for the receipt and 
radiation of all impressions. A line of communication between 
that central point and any given tissue of its cells, is so simple 
and easy since the correspondence from cell to cell, and between 
cells, is understood, that all are intelligent messengers, and each, 
knowing its own needs and its fellows' needs, being of like mind 
and substance, surely co-operation is the rule. We can stimulate 
here and relax there ; we can reduce congestion because every 
congestion can be removed; because every local particle is influ- 
enced by the general. 

Where there is excessive nutrition, we can dissipate attention, 
and where there is lack we can concentrate, overcoming waste 
and atrophy, all by working through the general intelligence, 
being in rapport with each member. Suggestion is the key to all 
especial action, and that may be throughout the whole system, 
or in any part. 

There are no forces within the body but what are con- 
trolled by the soul. The psychic power governs the magnetic 
and electrical forces; it absolutely determines the chemical and 
metabolic, or katabolic, action, perfectly obedient to whatever 
instructions are given through the soul. 

That the effect of suggestion may be general or circum- 
scribed, is capable of a very simple demonstration, where, by 
suggestion, we remove all sense of pain from the body, or, as in 
a number of hypnotic demonstrations, we give the suggestion that 
sensibility exists in the whole body, except just at the point of 
the needle. 

After giving the suggestion that there was a spot the size of a 
needle point that was in a state of anesthesia, and introducing the 
needle, found it true, that the introduction of a second needle as 
close as possible would produce pain. Inhibition, just as sug- 
gested, can be realized. 

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I am thoroughly convinced that the fact of mind in the cell 
makes plain to the student that which seemed so difficult of under- 
standing and appreciation in the practice of psycho-therapy. 

In a book covering the general field of psychology, I do not 
feel warranted in dwelling at all exhaustively upon the subject 
of mind in the cell, but I will call the attention of the man that 
wants to think, that cell structure and mind in the cell are just 
the same, whether the cell be in one kingdom or another. In 
the flower there is that material structure in which mind is 
master, and is the Hfe. 

Material and spiritual, the cell in vegetable kingdom is like that 
in the man's body. If mind be in the cell, as plainly demonstrated 
through our various laboratories and their combination, then it 
must be evident that there is mind in the atoms that comprise the 
cells. 

Finding that mind is the creator, making the form by select- 
ing the substance that it needs in order to fulfill its function, then 
it is mind in the atom, and mind manifested through the atom, 
uniformly and universally. 



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^ ELEPATHY is usually defined as being the transference Telepathy 
^^ of thought from one person to another by other than 
^^^ objective methods — words and signals. It has been 
taught as a thought conceived by one person's mind and trans- 
mitted to and received by another mind. 

Very careful and scientific demonstration and study have 
shown that thought transference is really the transmission from 
one soul to another soul; that this wide awake objective, what we 
usually speak of as the conscious mind, is not the mentality 
that can either send or receive thought telepathically. 

I dare say that we shall come to an understanding through the 
illustrations, as well as the principles, as to the workings of the 
soul in this matter, and the relationship of mind to soul in the 
exercise. 

The objective mind may conceive a thought with reference 
to another person, and desire the communication to be trans- 
mitted. What really takes place then is that the transmitter, 
through his objective mind effort, places upon his soul the sug- 
gestion to communicate the thought to the recipient. That intel- 
ligence, through processes that are based upon science, causes the 
communication to go out, and it is the function of the soul to 
which the thought is aimed to receive the message, if rapport has 
been estabHshed between them. 

It being the case that the sub-conscious mind receives the 
message would account for the fact that we become conscious 
of such a small percentage of the messages that we know, through 
our science, really are received by our souls. 

Those we have developed until they are adepts in what we 
usually call mind reading, but are really soul readers, make us 
acquainted with so much that our friends have transmitted to 
us, both voluntarily and involuntarily. 

A psychic, reading my soul, has revealed to me the affairs of 
people that are in rapport with me, and yet the particular points 
of information in many instances would not seem to have any 
bearing upon our mutual interests, and would not concern me at 
all, and the transmitter did not take any objective, or conscious 
thought, or make any effort to impress me with such data. 

We get to realize that the soul has a world of its own, and 
carries on its exchange of correspondence. There is no doubt 
that every one of us is carrying out the desire of other souls 
with which we are in rapport, unconsciously to ourselves and 
them. 

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The purpose of this portion of this book is to put this matter 
on a basis that we will utilize this principle to the good of our- 
selves and those with whom we are in mental touch. We learn 
the value of a thought we become acquainted with its eternal 
influence upon the originator, and all of those with whom he is in 
rapport. 

In my illustrations of this subject, I aim to select some that 
will impress the principles the best. The complete history of the 
past year would make a volume larger than this entire book, 
and I do not think that I shall go back of that period. 

The first proposition that I want attention given to is that the 
soul transmits to another a perfect copy of what is enrolled upon 
it. As to when this transmission takes place, concerning any 
particular experience, is difficult to settle. We will afford you the 
experiences, and you may draw your own conclusions. That will 
be helpful, and may cause such investigations as to presently fix 
upon the question of prophecy. 

A psychic whom I was developing several months since came 
for her sitting on Friday night. She said : 'T saw you go out 
of a building yesterday, and after getting out on the sidewalk, you 
halted, and, after hesitating a moment, turned around and went 
back in and up an elevator, as though you had forgotten some- 
thing." Being asked when she saw that, she replied, "At four 
o'clock in the afternoon." 

What I actually did was to go to the public library with two 
cards calling for books. When my name was called, I took the 
book, assuming that both cards were in the book, as one had 
probably not drawn what it called for. When I got down to the 
sidewalk, I was impressed suddenly that possibly the other card 
had not been handed me, and upon opening the book, I discov- 
ered that such was the case. I returned to the fifth floor, and my 
second card had been called out with its book. That was between 
ten and eleven o'clock Thursday, whereas the Psychic said she 
saw me at four o'clock, or about that. 

This would, of itself, be evidence that she became conscious 
of the matter at four o'clock, but at some previous time to that her 
soul had received the correct impress of the circumstances. 

In taking her psychic development at my hands, I had advised 
her sitting quiet and passive at some time during each day, being 
perfectly neutral, making no effort to receive any certain impres- 
sions from any certain sources, but to be open for impressions. 
That sitting and passivity is simply a means by which the con- 
scious mind reaches into the sub-conscious and learns that is 
there. 

Objectively I thought nothing of the psychic at the time I was 
having this experience, nor did I at any time conceive of the idea 

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of impressing her with the occurrence. She was under a sugges- 
tion that I had given her that our rapport would be perfect, and 
that she would keep in touch with all my movements. That was 
as much a suggestion to my own soul to convey to her as it was 
hers to receive. 

With a limited experience, one would say positively that the 
lady received, in her soul, the information as given above, at the 
moment of the occurrence, and that in the passivity, her conscious 
mind got it from her soul. 

There is not any doubt as to when she became conscious of 
the communication, but there are experiences that would prevent 
us from being able to say with certainty that she received the 
message at the moment of its occurrence, for it is just as likely 
that she knew of it in her soul before as afterwards. For she had 
read my soul, and in many instances had made me aware of 
things that ultimately occurred, of which I had no expectancy 
or consciousness at the time. 

As an illustration of the fact that she could have told me on 
Wednesday night that on Thursday morning I would have that 
experience ; and if she could have told me on Wednesday night 
before, she could probably just as well have told me a month 
or a year before. 

February 8th, in the evening, a young lady whom I was devel- 
oping said : 'T see a rickety old wagon ; looks like it has been in 
an accident and is wrecked, and the wheel is off in front of your 
house." She was not sufficiently developed at that time to distin- 
guish an occurrence of the past from one that would be. I told 
her that I could recall no such matter. 

The following afternoon, which was February 9th, a colored 
man with a load of ashes was driving by when a front wheel 
gave way and broke every spoke. He carried the rim of the 
wheel and the broken spokes, and placed them on the sidewalk 
in front of my door, where they remained until the following day. 

There are just two dates of that circumstance that are cer- 
tain. The first is that at nine o'clock, February 8th, the descrip- 
tion of the matter was given me, and at three o'clock February 9th 
I became conscious of the whole matter. 

It surely is not necessary at this day to enter into even a dis- 
cussion as to the source of the information which the psychic 
gives one. In these experiences my own soul held the facts, 
and these psychics, being in the passive state, were in rapport with 
my soul, and obtained from me that which I was not even con- 
scious of. They became the mediums between my sub-conscious 
and my conscious minds. And so the hundreds of instances in 
which these persons and scores of others that I have had asso- 
ciated with my work, whenever they told me of persons with 

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whom I was and would be related to as patients or pupils, or 
in some business matter, received the information from me, for 
I was in rapport with all of them, and also with my psychics. 

The old belief was that a psychic had some pecuHar means by 
which she could travel all over the world, if necessary, and pick 
up from one individual here and another one there and make a 
man acquainted with his affairs. I believe I could furnish a thou- 
sand experiences, any one of which would satisfy anyone that the 
science of the thing is that the psychic receives the data that 
concerns an individual directly from the individual's sub-conscious 
mind, for in that is registered his past, in that perfect memory, 
and all that his relationships may cause other persons to 
come in touch with him — all of that data is registered in that 
same soul, and also in the department of the soul is held the 
picture of the experiences with which he will yet meet. 

It is but a trifle, but I refer to the wagon wheel experience 
because I have already described it, and it could not have been 
foretold and accounted for because of any man having pre- 
viously thought of the matter as something he would bring to 
pass, and so my soul could not have been conscious of it from 
any such means. 

It is inherent in the soul to know its future, and it takes 
account of the minutest experiences. Indeed, we see such experi- 
ences day after day, one becomes convinced that the hairs of 
our heads are numbered, and the sub-conscious mind knows the 
number, and that it takes account of the fall of a sparrow. 

The soul is omniscient, at least so far as its individual interests 
and relationships are concerned. It is omnipotent so far as the 
physical body is concerned, in which it lives. And it is omni- 
present, being in every atom of every cell of every tissue com- 
prising the body. 

I have broken abruptly into the heart of this subject, not 
aiming to set forth a lot of terms that cause confusion to the 
student, and give him the suggestion that the question of tele- 
pathy is one to entangle him and in which nothing can be 
made clear. 

This is a practical book, and the author has associated with the 
subjects herein taught until it is a matter of no more surprise 
that a thought should be transmitted and received, even word for 
word, as literally as though it had been written or spoken, or 
given by any other code. 

With the data I have recorded, I am not surprised when 
matters occur according to the written description of them, even 
though a psychic dictated the words in that description weeks 
before the occurrences. It no longer astounds me that the small- 
est detail of my past life, as well as important experiences, should 

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be given me by one with whom I am in rapport, if that one 
is in the state of passivity. 

This does not involve any necessity for the psychic to be devel- 
oped into a state of hypnosis and receive her psychic development 
afterwards; but just as in suggestive therapeutics we have those 
who have shown evidences of gift in receiving correct impressions 
from other souls, who become passive in the same manner as our 
patients, but receive the literal suggestion that make them keener 
in rapport; in other words, prepare them to have that control 
of the psychic power that they can cause other souls to impress 
upon their conscious minds the data or any particular items that 
it might be desirable to know of. 

Being scientifically developed, they are able to cut off rapport 
from all those that would be depressing to them, or in any way 
objectionable, or to open the doors of the soul to any that they 
might desire communications from ; in other words, to establish 
or cut off rapport when and where they please. 

This is far superior to the hap-hazard practice of psychics, 
for, unscientifically trained, they are susceptible to the influence 
of every person, and especially to influences that are for their 
physical and mental disadvantage. 

Many good psychics are under the impression that the data 
is brought to them through spirit control ; that is, departed spirits, 
and so make themselves responsive to every unwholesome com- 
munication from other people, and their own whims as well. 

This book is not for the purpose of discussing the possibility of 
communications between souls in the present environment and 
these who have made the transition. 

The information which comes through mind-reading we will 
consider from the scientific standpoint of soul speaking to soul 
in the present environment, for that we know is done, and any 
phenomena that we cannot account for scientifically we will give 
no consideration or claim to. The past, present, and future are 
given by psychics that are developed through suggestion. 

The perfect memory, which is a faculty of the soul ; the knowl- 
edge of the present and the picture of the future, and it being 
the function of the soul to convey that copy to the sub-conscious 
mind (the soul) of others, will cover all the scope of this book 
in its argument and history. 

While it is true that comparatively a small percentage of per- 
sons have the gift of competent mediumship to come in between 
the sub-conscious and the conscious minds of another individual, 
yet it is sufficiently common and frequently enough demonstrated 
to carry conviction that every person with whom we come in 
rapport gives us a copy of himself and receives from us likewise 
a copy. 

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^ HE psychic power, as pertains to that ability to become con- How to 
L^ scious of what is in one's own sub-conscious mind or in Become a 
^^'^ another's, is a spiritual gift. It is a quality of the soul Psvchic 
that is present in everyone. It is upon the same basis as music, or 
any other art. All are spiritual characteristics, and common to all. 
In some, music is prominent and the other items latent, and in so 
little evidence that it would not justify the cultivation that would 
be necessary to develop anything save music. 

This psychic power being a spiritual gift, is sufficient index 
to demand cultivation to the most perfect state possible. 

As instructor I am constantly importuned to undertake devel- 
opment of persons who have envied the perfection that they have 
observed in someone else. It is upon the same principle that many 
a man, under the inspiration of fine execution of music, feels a 
thrill, and creates in himself a desire and aspiration to do the 
same, but yet, in his ordinary state of mind, he would know that 
music was not a permanent presence in his makeup, and that 
whatever he might do, it would be mechanical. 

Where music is prominent in one's soul, it is demanding ex- 
pression in such a way that it is irresistible ; as a child he is con- 
stantly developing some means to give expression to what he 
feels in music, and the desire is irresistible. 

Now, one in whom there is psychic power will be frequently 
giving expression to those things that he has received from other 
persons telepathically. To some such persons, truths come 
through dreams, but nothing is more haphazard than dreams, and 
during emotional states, regardless of the cause of emotion, the 
sub-conscious is blending with the conscious in such a way that the 
person will foretell, to some extent, and frequently will be giving 
expression to matters concerning others with whom he or she is in 
rapport, that have not been known through the external methods. 

Attempts have been made by various writers to show that 
certain temperaments were especially apt as psychics. A general 
experience does not warrant one in such limitation. 

That proposition is very much like the fight between the 
Liebault Hospital of Suggestion and Charcot's, in which Charcot 
took the position that only nervous diseases could be successfully 
treated by suggestion, whereas he had no experience with any 
other kind, being a specialist. 

The blonde and the brunette, male and female, among any 
and all, there are those who show traces of merit, that under 
proper care will develop into excellent psychics. 

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How to train a psychic is rather simple, unless one is fond 
of complexity. There are educational and natural peculiarities 
that have to be corrected in the candidate for development. Nine- 
tenths of them come in with the statement that they have some 
evidences of being clairvoyant and invariably, unless they have 
read some very modern literature, think that that includes the 
power of going from one part of the world to another, and that 
to them, clear seeing is the power of being right on the ground 
where the thing is taking place, and seeing the occurrence. 

Probably another five per cent, at least, think that spirit control 
and intercession bring them the facts. This leaves us a small 
percentage that may come and say that from many experiences 
they think that they can receive and become conscious of the 
things that are known to persons with whom they are in rapport. 

It is far better to get the ninety per cent, and five per cent, 
to have an intelligent and scientific understanding of the prin- 
ciples upon which their work is based; that is, to show them 
that every person communicates with every one else with whom 
he is in rapport, and that the recipient unconsciously holds the 
information in his sub-conscious mind, or soul; that if she is a 
psychic she reads data from her own soul that has been placed 
there telepathically ; that mind-reading, so-called, is really the 
conscious mind reaching into the sub-conscious and bringing forth 
the contents. 

It may make it simpler to the student to refer him to another 
instance in which the objective mind reaches into the subjective, 
which is of constant occurrence. 

The perfect memory is a faculty of the soul ; recollection that 
of the mind; and so we are constantly making our records in 
the perfect memory, and that which we have occasion to utilize 
we bring to hand by recalling — in other words, bringing up from 
the soul's memory into the conscious mind that which passed 
through the conscious mind and went to the soul. 

Now psychic exercise is that in which there is a touch between 
the conscious and the sub-conscious that is so perfect that the soul 
pushes over into that consciousness the required and desired 
matter, or involuntarily places visions, or images, or, as we usually 
say, pictures, so plainly before the imagination, and so irresistibly, 
that they often disturb the sensitive, until the matter has been 
divulged. 

I say it is much better for your psychic to understand the 
simplicity of this, and to feel that when she is doing what has 
been called mind-reading, sometimes termed clear-seeing, or clair- 
voyance, she is not traveling thousands of miles and having to 
penetrate into strange conditions and environments; but that all 
that she is finding out is what has come into her soul through 

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its rapport with another. That rapport is based upon mental touch 
and sympathy. She has to be a receiver that is in perfect attune- 
ment to the transmitting soul from which she receives messages. 

If one begins to deal with an applicant who is still under the 
belief of traveling, or sending the soul, as they sometimes say, 
he soon finds that the task seems burdensome and exhausting, 
and she seems to be under great strain in order to travel and to 
see, or, if she be a believer in the spirit control, she goes through 
many contortions and nervous manifestations, seeing that it is 
her control that is trying to manifest through her. 

You do not have any occasion to tear down her religious belief 
in spiritualism, but simply give her to understand that what you 
want to do is to develop her psychic, or mind-reading powers, 
and that you have nothing to do with her spirit control or her 
religious beliefs; that what you want, and that what you think 
she really wants, is covered by telepathy. And those persons 
know that the complete record is in the soul of the person who 
is having the reading, and in their own souls, and not at some 
great distance, although the communication might be one that 
had come any distance direct to the soul of the psychic, if she 
were in rapport with that distant person, or direct to the soul 
of the one to whom she is giving the reading, that is in rapport 
with the distant locality. 

Granting that you can instill this much truth and understanding 
into your applicant for development, then have him, or her, sit 
in a chair where relaxation is possible, and passivity then obtained, 
just as in preparing a patient for treatment. That is, the eyes 
are closed, and you in the office of developer place your hand upon 
the forehead, not necessarily touching the eyes, but simply keeping 
in that touch by which the magnetic exchange may be made, and 
rapport more intimately produced. 

Begin suggesting: ''Your nerves are perfectly quiet; all is 
calm and peaceful in our surroundings, and you can become so 
thoroughly relaxed and so comfortable now, just as though you 
were going to sleep. You will become more and more passive 
from moment to moment, and if you do not become perfectly 
passive at this sitting, you will in those to come, each time becom- 
ing more deeply affected. Make no effort to obtain any particular 
impression ; leave that all to me. And during this sitting do not 
speak. You will remember perfectly every impression that may 
come to you and be able to tell me all about it after the sitting is 
over. By remembering, establishing rapport with me, and obtain- 
ing the knowledge that I hold of my affairs of present, past and 
future, you will become prepared to enter into the rapport with 
others at will, and to obtain from them the general or specific 
information sought." 

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Now I repeat these suggestions two or three times at the 
first few sittings, and in addition I suggest that rapport will con- 
tinue during our separation; that she will become conscious of 
communications from me, and from others, during the interv'al, 
all of which she will remember. ''This information will impress 
itself upon your consciousness, especially during moments of your 
passivity and relaxation, in which you seek to be impressed." 

I want to inform the reader here that many persons who show 
this tendency, and especially men, are very much annoyed by the 
pictures that force themselves upon them when their attention is 
particularly fixed and probably required, in their affairs, and 
for that reason the psychic should be instructed from the first that 
she can and should control and regulate the time for the receipt of 
these communications from her soul to her mind. If this is not 
done there is a strong tendency for these impressions to be carried 
over to consciousness both in season and out of season. 

Another objection to letting these conditions control us, instead 
of our controlling them, is that there is an inclination to go into 
the subjective state whenever the soul is making itself known 
to the conscious mind. Spending too much time in passivity that 
some people term the silence is a more dangerous extreme than 
to never become relaxed and passive to allow the soul a chance 
to speak. 

Passivity is a state in which one is susceptible to suggestion, 
and therefore, living in the passivity constantly, or generally, 
keeps one under very unwholesome mental and spoken suggestion 
of those about. 

As beautiful a thing as is music or art, one does not want to 
be under the influence of either all the time. That also tends to 
exercise the soul to the exclusion of the functions of the objective 
mind. \\'hen the objective mind is not fulfilling its oftice, and 
correctly, at that, that constitutes insanity. 

Going into passivity and utilizing the soul's forces in directing 
them through suggestion, and living in the proper relationship 
to the objective mind, allowing it to perform its office as sentry 
over the soul keeps one in mental and spiritual equipoise, fulfilling 
the laws that govern mind action. 

This convinces one that it is wholesome to give the psychic 
suggestions to receive these impressions at a time that he may 
select for becoming passive, rather than to have the pictures force 
themselves upon him at inopportune moments. 

It becomes a most beautiful unfoldment of this spiritual gift; 
to see the advancement from time to time is interesting indeed. 

As a general thing, about the fifth sitting I give the psychic 
a suggestion that she can talk while in the passive state, and 
describe the impressions that she gets, without going out of the 

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passivity, and yet that she will remember, when that passivity 
is over, the same things, if she cares to recall them. 

This is a matter that is entirely optional with the operator 
and the patient, and I have generally left it to the preference of 
the patient as to whether she will be developed to remember after 
she is out of the passive state the experiences of the hour. 

As a general thing it is better that she be trained to remember 
what occurs during her sittings, in which the operator is in her 
immediate presence, because with that training she will be better 
adapted to remember what comes to her consciousness during 
her passivity when she is at home practising. 

The gift is absolutely controllable by suggestion, capable of 
being intensified, regulated as to time and as to the character of 
the communications to which she will become most susceptible. 
The great majority of persons who are aiming at spiritual im- 
provement will not care to be susceptible to the receipt of evil 
communications from those whose predominating thought and the 
tendencies of their lives are not uplifting or inspiring of good. 

The psychic should be taught that by an act of her will, taking 
formal thought and resolution ; in other words, treating her soul 
as though it were a distinct entity, and commanding that it would 
not be in sympathy and receive communications from certain indi- 
viduals. Under the laws of rapport I know that this form of appli- 
cation of suggestion is successful. Furthermore, that if it is not 
desired that some individual's whole personality shall be excluded, 
certain lines can be accepted and others rejected. 

This phase of the question needs considerable treatment. 
There is such a large percentage, especially those in the commer- 
cial line of psychic work, who deal chiefly in giving one all the evil 
that is either back of him or before him, and if that is not ample, 
she gives him a portion of that which is in her own soul, and will 
even weave in the lives of others that are of the same class. 

This tendency has discounted the whole field of psychic work, 
and prevents the development that many would appreciate if they 
knew of the purity and cleanliness of the true psychic work, and 
how the psychic can, by taking the suggestion in the above 
manner, absolutely and entirely prohibit evil communications from 
passing through her. 

The very fact that one is living on the high plane is a pretty 
sure protection, in a general way, at least against intimate rapport 
coming to her from those on the lower. 

By far the largest majority of the psychics that I have devel- 
oped within the last year have been developed because they 
believed that it was a gift worthy of development, and that 
through their work a better acquaintance of the soul laws could 
be had, and they were not commercial psychics. 

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The development of psychics, whatever their purpose, is prac- 
tically the same. An exception might be in that we need to empha- 
size the suggestion in those who have commercial purposes, to fit 
them for establishing rapport instantly with those who desire 
their services, and give the suggestion that they will be able to 
do this ; that the instant they meet a person they will receive an 
impress of that one, and the impress immediately communicate 
itself to the consciousness. 

During the development it would be well if the operator would, 
in cases I am now describing, call in a number of other persons 
in order to see that they are able to do this, for the exercise during 
the development being only with the operator, would not give the 
psychic sufficient variety of personalities to practice the rapport 
upon. 

The natural adaptation, owing to peculiarities of the psychic's 
tendencies, may fit her for one line of reading better than another. 
I have found some who were especially adept in diagnosing dis- 
ease, others as character readers, others who were excellent at 
following the course of one's life in the past, and again others 
who would seldom go into the past at all, but would describe the 
experiences that were in the future. 

This foretelling of journeys and business transactions, involv- 
ing descriptions of persons, their peculiarities, the result of contact 
with them, many times giving peculiarities of personal exterior, 
not simply as to the type, but mannerisms and peculiarities of 
dress, and yet the one who was receiving this information through 
the psychic had no objective knowledge of any of the persons, and 
had not conceived of the idea of the journey or the transaction in 
any way, cannot be accounted for on the basis of the object of 
the reading having received the impress concerning those things 
through telepathic messages from those persons that he might 
meet some months hence. 

It is inherent in the soul to know its experiences in advance, 
at least many months. These things have come to me personally, 
too often to be coincidences. 

A careful observation of the data, with no purpose to prove the 
proposition, but to know the truth of it, has characterized my daily 
effort. My experience is worth more than it is to anyone else, and 
since it can be every man's, I do not intend, at present, to push 
the argument or present the data in the detail that the subject 
might warrant. I will give you the plan by which you can as well 
demonstrate it for yourself as to accept my experiences as settling 
the question. 

As stated before, I have had some psychics whose strong point 
was to go into the future. Literally and briefly, this proposition 
that the soul knows its future. I mean by future that which shall 

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occur to the individual while in the present environment. I have 
no occasion to take up the question as to his knowledge or his 
condition in the next. 

Now I am not pretending to state that he knows, from the 
instant of his birth, his whole life, or that he will know at ten 
the history he will make up to sixty. I have not demonstrated 
how long a time, so that I can fix it definitely, but in personal 
experience, things have been foretold which I had no possibility 
of accounting for on the basis of accident or coincidence, more 
than a year ahead. 

Many minds would be satisfied that the principles were perfect 
if the sub-conscious foretold one day or thirty days in advance. 



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^^OW, in taking up the question of psychic phenomena, let no Some Psychic 
J f. ^^^ ^^ ^^ t^^ injustice to say that I would approve of all Phenomena 
^ the methods of fortune-telling, or that I am endorsing any 
man or woman, or his or her method. I simply want to consider 
the phenomena that are so common and create consternation in 
many instances, and whatever the form, and almost whoever the 
person, there has been interest awakened and inexplainable ex- 
periences. 

One person will take a crystal, and, gazing upon it for a while, 
speak truths concerning the experiences in the past life of some- 
one with whom she is in rapport, and usually who is present, and 
in her revelations will go into the future and will make certain 
statements. There will be a certain percentage, possibly a small 
percentage only, that will be true. 

Another may take the coffee or tea grounds and give the same 
sort of data, with the same percentage of truth. 

Another will gaze into the fire. They have been doing this 
ever since the experience of Moses and the burning bush, and 
probably long before, but the data is of the same class and char- 
acter as that obtained by the other means mentioned. 

The Indian will take his hands full of animal tusks, bird claws 
and beaks and pebbles, and throw them upon the ground, and he 
gives you much of your past, your present, and his foretelling 
is often quite accurate. 

The Egyptian may use shells or barks, or the talisman, or 
he may depend upon astrology and its relationship to your date 
of birth. Anyway, very often he will give you an excellent char- 
acter reading and history of important events and changes in 
your life, and the most prominent and impressive points of your 
future. 

Another will take the ordinary playing cards, with each card 
representing a word or term, that is each card stands for some- 
thing, and in its combination with others will complete sentences, 
and the one who is receiving the reading mixes the cards, and 
the reader with his or her acquaintance with the alphabetical mean- 
ing of the cards, will give the same kind of information that any 
and all of these others have given. 

The palmist, with the best education as such, while giving 
peculiar facts, possibly as to the tendencies to disease, and finding, 
as he thinks, in the palm, the tendencies that should be, or would 
be, followed or overcome, yet with his phraseology and the allow- 
ance made for some peculiarities, he invariably goes into the past. 

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present and future to about the same degree that the average of 
the others do by their different methods. 

The spirit medium will give practically the same, if she is a 
good psychic, and then the last that I shall refer to is the psychic 
who, with no other pretensions, and without devices of any kind, 
or even a belief in any other thing than her own mind and soul, 
will give the same, substantially, that the others do, but with more 
accuracy and with larger percentage of success. In her foretell- 
ing, nine-tenths, at least, may be correct, and possibly the other 
tenth, representing the error, is due to her, because of her objec- 
tive mind, endeavoring to interpret the meaning of the impres- 
sions that she gets. 

With about a dozen different methods, nearly every one very 
unlike the others, yet by them all obtaining about the same sort 
of phenomena, would convince one that there is a common source 
of the knowledge somewhere. It certainly is not in the fire, the 
coffee grounds, the pebbles and claws, the stars, nor the lines 
of the hand, nor the cards, but that all of these, and any of them, 
are the means of getting the sub-conscious knowledge. 

In all of these instances, there has been a person whom we 
call a medium giving the inforaiation. If there is no psychic 
power in the person who attempts to give information through any 
of the above means there is no data obtained, either as to the past, 
present or future, that is correct, except by one method and that 
is the cards. 

If a reader, or one who claims to be able to read, has a meaning 
ascribed to each card, and to a combination of cards, there will be 
data of the same character obtained, but not as perfect or as exten- 
sive as the psychic will give. 

I have had under my observation several psychics who had this 
alphabetical knowledge of cards, and where one who was not a 
psychic, for illustration, would read that a man of certain descrip- 
tion was going to pay money for medicine and doctor's services, 
which the literal meaning of the cards would give, a person who 
was also psychical, in looking at that picture card, gave the disease 
and the amount of money that he would pay, and in various 
details, describe the person. 

To illustrate the meaning of this latter, a lady who was being 
developed as a psychic, in looking at the cards which I had 
mixed and cut as she directed, read out of them that "a light 
man with a peculiar color of light hair, with red face, above the 
average in height, robust, will wear a light overcoat when he 
comes, has some peculiar malady that has nonplussed him and all 
of his physicians, twenty-eight years of age, will come a short 
journey, crossing water, and will, after consultation, desire treat- 
ment, but is not financially situated at present to take it." 

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It was six days after this date that the young man came, ful- 
filHng every detail exactly, even to the peculiarity of his disorder, 
which had caused confusion wherever he had been. 

Where did she get the information? Under the old teach- 
ings she would have gone to East St. Louis and seen the man and 
found all of these facts. 

The man informed me that he had learned of me two weeks 
before he was able to come, although determined from the first 
that he would do so as soon as he could. He had seen my picture, 
and had heard read some extracts from my lectures, which caused 
him to determine on his visit. 

I had been the object of his thought. I see no reason to 
suppose that this lady had peculiar powers of receiving infor- 
mation from the soul of one who had no reason to come in touch 
with her, whereas it is a straight and simple process, if soul read- 
ing be true at all, for me to have received the communication, 
being the object of his desire, and she, being in full rapport with 
me, to have obtained the full information. Besides, meeting him 
was to be an experience of mine, so I had the knowledge sub- 
consciously. 

Now a single individual can take the cards and fix upon any 
alphabetical meaning he pleases, and mixing the cards and cutting 
them according to any form he may want to adopt, will obtain 
for himself the same data that is given by another person who 
might be able to give only the literal, alphabetical meaning of the 
cards, which brings it dow^n to this fact : That the cards come in 
as a medium by which the person may become conscious of what 
the sub-conscious holds. In mixing the cards and cutting them, 
the person involuntarily mixes and cuts in such a way as to give 
the true story. 

It is not probable that in a scientific book, where a man had, 
as I have, given eleven years to constant attention of the action 
of the soul that he would give any credence to any method of 
obtaining the data that the soul contains, without an abundance 
of evidence to justify it. That is the situation with reference to 
the cards. 

I know all that one would say from the standpoint of his 
reason when he first hears a proposition and cannot see how there 
can be any merit therein, but those lifeless cards become as a 
written epistle containing history and prophecy. I have watched 
the phenomena carefully for three years, and for the past year 
have kept in writing accurate data concerning the card experi- 
ments and a very large percentage of all which would be stated 
occurred, and the meaning of the cards would be realized. 

To my mind, with the knowledge that I have that all the 
forces and the functions of the body are controlled by the soul. 

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and that the soul knows all, it is easy to regard the cards as simply 
the medium of communication between the subconscious, which 
knows all, and the conscious mind which is bringing up that 
knowledge. Now this is a matter of such simple demonstration, 
and 3^et leads to such marvelous results to the man or woman who 
is getting truth concerning the laws of the soul, that I would 
advise one to satisfy himself concerning the experiment if he 
wants to regard it as such, before he goes off in his superior way 
and says there could be nothing in it. You do not have to use 
the playing cards, but take the ordinary visiting cards and make 
up your own alphabet, if you prefer, writing on any card any 
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'^^H N the closing of the previous chapter, and in many other 
fl portions of the book, reference is made to the soul being 
^^ the power that presides over the bodily functions and de- 
sires; but we want now to give particular attention to its power 
over the substances of the body, and its forces. 

Our attention, as chemists, has been more attracted by the 
pathological changes in the secretions of the body through our 
emotional states. Therefore, there is not as much general data 
to be had demonstrating the wholesome effect of the good emo- 
tions. On the other side of the column we have such experiences 
as anger, fear, jealousy, and all dark passions changing the alka- 
line secretions to acid and the acid to alkaline. These tests have 
been made particularly with the perspiration and the digestive 
secretions. Then there is that common experience in which the 
above emotions produced such changes in the mother's milk as 
to poison the child at her breast. 

Anyone giving a second thought to a process by which stirring 
up the emotional nature would produce poisonous conditions in 
milk, would agree that there must have been a change in the cells 
comprising the milk. Then there is a power in the mind that pre- 
sides over the cells in the body. 

Now if a few minutes' spasm of passion can produce such 
profound changes in the chemistry of the body, what must be 
expected if there is constant morbidness, the soul always in gloom 
and unfavorable expectancy? 

These sudden and temporary emotional states directly and im- 
mediately make the changes indicated, and the chemical distri- 
bution and its natural offices being thwarted, blood, and therefore 
nutrition, and hence every tissue of the body, undergoes depre- 
ciation from the standard of perfect health before reaction can 
come. 

It is inherent in the vital force to counteract the disorder and 
establish peace and harmony in the systems, but how often, before 
such an equilibrium is restored, is one given to beholding some- 
thing, or listening to something, or through some of the other 
faculties, causing the objective mind to pass on to the soul some 
conclusion of irritation or unwholesome emotion, and so one 
wave after another, in the irritable, or jealous or fearing person 
follows in such close relationship as to make it impossible ever 
to establish the right conditions in the body. 

Then it becomes true that chemical changes are followed by 
tissue changes in which the elements of the cells become incom- 

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plete, wrong compounds are present in the various tissues, and 
a depleted system, nervous exhaustion, inanition, mal-nutrition, 
anemia, and a generally lowered standard throughout the whole 
organism, and a proportionate decrease of power of resistance, 
all of which are conducive to the appearance of disease, which will 
most profoundly affect that portion of the system that is in the 
lowest degree of resistance. 

Tuberculosis is typical of all the wasting diseases, any one 
of which may have had its origin in the lack of self-control, in 
giving way to anger, fear or jealousy, or any other evil passion, 
and these fatal issues had their beginning in a change of the 
chemistry of the secretions of the body because of an unwhole- 
some emotion, and that which might have been very fleeting as a 
cause is eternal in its effect. 

Getting a faint glimpse of some such idea as this caused the 
old metaphysicians to classify the various diseases that followed 
upon, or found their correspondence to mental states, stating, for 
instance, that impatience or covetousness would produce bad 
breath; doubt, fear and obstinacy, asthma; hot temper and jeal- 
ousy boils ; criticism, Brights' disease ; suppressed passion, cancer ; 
and that diabetes was produced by foolishness, earache by dis- 
obedience, eczema by censure; nausea by thought of separation; 
pneumonia by disappointment in love or in business; rheumatism 
by fretting, anger or stubbornness. 

The founders of these interpretations were grasping after 
truth, and they did find a thread running through it all, and while 
these various mental states do not produce with regularity any 
certain diseases, the falling of the whole organism into wrong 
chemistry, following upon evil mentality, will make expression 
upon that portion of the system which is in the lowest stage of 
resistance. 

Thus far we have been dealing with outbursts of wrong mental 
exercise, constituting, as stated, temporary cause and endless 
eft'ects, but there is even a more disastrous mentality that we must 
consider. I refer to morbidness, a constant depressed mental 
state, or where one takes hold of an all-consuming thought, as, 
for illustration, that which fairly becomes a mania. Now, a man 
does become, from his head to his feet, an expression of that state 
in which his soul lives. His countenance betokens his innermost 
thought, and he could not conceal it if he would. His only hope 
is to paint out that picture, and put a true one in its place. Then 
there will be regeneration in his body, following upon the regen- 
eration of his soul, and he becomes a living witness of the true 
and noble thoughts in him. 

Let not even the casual reader depreciate this profound truth, 
that the thought held in the soul is lived, and being lived, it will 

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change the contour and composition of that physical organism 
in which he Hves. 

If we can beUeve anything in history, we must beHeve that 
which is recorded of the Stigmatists, for it is as authentic as any 
matters that have been given us from that period. The nuns 
desired to enter into all the feelings that they believed Jesus 
had experienced. They wanted what they would consider miracu- 
lous evidence that they had entered into the fullest experiences of 
these feelings, and they fixed the character of that miracle to be 
that upon each hand and foot, and upon the side of the body 
there should come scars corresponding to the broken flesh in 
their Savior's body. They entered into the fullest belief that that 
realization would come. They meditated upon it day and night, 
and entered into the religious emotions, living under that mental 
state constantly, kept renewing in their souls that which they 
wanted to ultimately be expressed in their bodies by looking upon 
the picture of Christ on the cross, thus fulfilling every condition of 
pouring into the soul by suggestion, when the objective faculties 
were in abeyance and they were under their religious ecstacy, in 
which they scarcely stopped at a petition, or prayer, that the 
changes would come, but their faith was so perfect that it 
amounted to a command that those scars appear. They did not go 
into the silence with a spasm of emotion and affirm that the scars 
were already there, but they did take the thought earnestly and 
profoundly into their souls. They not only held the thought, 
but they lived the life, they lived the thought. It was not a fit of 
concentration, but it was entire consecration in which there were 
no lapses of devotion to the suggestion. 

They held the picture in their souls of what would be the 
condition when full realization of those scars was attained, and 
those changes in the various substances of the body, in all the 
tissues involved in the materialization of that picture, were un- 
doubtedly confirmed. Man becomes that which he believes in 
his soul he will become. In all the histories of all the psycholo- 
gists, no person who is not up to his best standard of health can 
find a better formula than that given in the history of the Stig- 
matists, by which he may attain to his standard of perfection, 
physically, mentally and spiritually. 

The perfection of faith is essential, and the objective mind 
plants doubt instead of faith, because it knows things through the 
senses, and wants that sort of a test of everything, and it will not 
let the soul prompt through intuition, and so we go on casting 
shadows over our souls and defeating the expressions that this 
supreme power over the body would want to make. For that 
reason auto-suggestion as a healing power is not very certain, as 
a rule, for the same reason that it becomes necessary for passivity 

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to be entered into, and a second person give the suggestions that 
create that subjective expectancy that perfects the body and the 
mind and the soul. 

Now if a temporary unwholesome emotion, an example of 
which we have given in the early part of this chapter, produces 
an effect during its flash, and becomes such a factor in one's life, 
then it must be true that every spurt of good that flashes as freely 
through one's soul, must have a beneficient sequel. Nothing is 
absolutely lost, and so every little appeal that touches the soul 
and causes a fleeting noble feeling and aspiration, may be the 
means by which the spark of good is kept from dying. 

Again, just as giving way to an irritation today will make it 
easier to yield tomorrow, and so on until constant, chronic irrita- 
bility is the usual, so will yielding to some tenderness once make 
one more susceptible, and as he becomes more susceptible there are 
more occasions that appeal, until the life becomes practically filled 
with opportunities and observation of them of doing good and per- 
forming generous acts. 

This resolves itself to this: It is not to spend life fighting the 
evil in ourselves or the world about us, but to see that all the 
ground is occupied by a thrifty, healthy growth that carries love's 
fragrance and fills the whole atmosphhere of life with sweetness 
and peace fulness. It is not killing the weeds, but the cultivation 
of the propitious plants. 

This whole subject properly connects itself with our first 
proposition that unhappy emotions produce chemical changes that 
result in disease and wholesome emotions, glad emotions, love 
emotions, stimulate the right chemistry, making for nutrition, 
establishing nervous equilibrium, soothing the circulation, and is a 
tonic to every portion of the body, because every cell is saturated 
through and through with love. 

No one who was in a state of health was ever made sick by 
yielding to the nobler feelings, and no one who was sick was ever 
made worse through the excitement of generous impulses. 

Love in all its reaching out is the true therapeutic agent. It 
heals the giver and the receiver. Evil, whatever the form of its 
expression, is infectious and spreads evil. Love is always a happy 
contagion. A few persons being thoroughly inoculated with it 
will create an epidemic. 

Possibly this is not clearly practical yet for everyone, as to 
just how, when one is tempted by anger, fear, or jealousy, or the 
depraved passions, to resist and to master the situation. 

Now, I have stated over and over again that the soul is the 
supreme power over all the tendencies of every phase of man's 
life. That being true, you will need only to know how to get 
action upon that supreme intelligence, and cause it to express 

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its mastership. In the first place if you have studied the physical 
demonstrations, or as in the hypnotic subject, where the various 
physical demonstrations, as catalepsy, inhibition of pain, etc., are 
shown, then you have conceded that there is that power in the 
soul, granting that you have laid the foundation for faith in the 
power that will control the tendencies and the desires. You have 
been impressed that yielding to these is disastrous, and you have 
thought that through will power you would overcome. 

That is equivalent to trusting to your objective mind, which 
is the seat of the will, with which you are most acquainted, and it 
is depending upon that will that has brought disaster to every man 
who ever had any occasion to master himself along any certain 
line. Instead of exercising the mind to overcome that deep im- 
pression, an emotion that you know is wrong, yield up that will 
and say to your soul, "You have the power. Your office has been 
heretofore usurped by mind, which has not that function at all, 
of presiding over my emotional states, but now, with my will, I 
trust to you to hold in check, to throttle, and presently to blot 
out, this evil temper, or this insane jealousy, and you shall be the 
master in my life." 

It is the same old story of becoming as a little child and letting 
that spiritual power that is within the body and is supplied with 
that office, but which is the passive power, manifest itself. When 
I say that it is a passive power, I mean that, so far as mind is 
concerned, it must cease its violent effort and give way to the 
soul, which is ever ready to perform its function. 

I cannot make this any more plain or practical, except that if 
necessary, and there are certainly no objections to doing so', enter 
into that relaxation of body and passivity of mind and receive 
suggestions from a second party that you will not be mastered 
and enslaved by the human tendencies, but that those things that 
have aroused you in an unwholesome way you will behold with 
calmness and control. 

Again I say it is not the domination of the will of the sug- 
gestor over that of the one receiving the suggestions, but in 
reality, it is bringing one in touch with and under the right laws 
that enable that supreme will — that of the soul — to prevail, caus- 
ing a co-operation of both the objective and subjective wills. This 
gives one a moral strength which, in proportion to the solitary 
will of the objective is as the physical voluntary power to the 
power that is manifested in what we usually call the involuntary 
of the physical. 

It is almost of common observation to have seen how that 
when the involuntary systems are utilized, seeming superhuman 
feats are enacted. As catalepsy, in which the body of the subject 
is suspended with the body, having no support save at the head 

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and heels, which rest upon supports, and six hundred pounds 
additional to the subject's weight is placed upon his body. I do 
not commend this weight experiment at all, and would not make 
it, but I have seen it demonstrated. 

Again, in cases of insanity, where the objective functions were 
all in abeyance and the involuntary presiding, seven men hardly 
equal in physical power, the one individual. 

It is needless to multiply these illustrations, for wherever you 
see an application of the involuntary (so-called) forces, they seem 
superhuman, as compared with the ordinary. This is just as true 
in mental or spiritual departments as in the physical, and while 
there is an office for the objective mind and all its faculties, the 
great factor, although so sadly neglected, is the soul, that power 
which, when brought into practical control, makes all moral ten- 
dencies easily directed. 



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' • A BSENT treatment is made scientific through an under- Absent 

/\ standing of the laws of thought transference, carrying Treatment 
'^ in our minds a complete key to telepathy, including a full 

appreciation of ethereal molecular vibrations, and the idea of a 
transmitter and a receiver or receivers in attunement therewith, 
and the science of absent treatment becomes practical. 

I have given several thousand demonstrations in transmitting 
a thought across a room, or a distance of ten or twenty feet, and 
got an immediate answer, in which the patient or subject, per- 
formed in exact fulfillment of the mental suggestion that I had 
directed toward him. 

Having this experience in my early practice, it became a matter 
of knowledge, and there was no necessity for me to depend on 
faith that my thought would be received by the object of it. 

Establishing my knowledge through the demonstrations 
where I could see the immediate results, caused me to fulfill the 
requirements to transmit any distance, through which I have been 
fully assured that distance makes no difference. 

No reader need hesitate to accept this understanding the vibra- 
tion hypothesis, and so he is equipped to proceed to formulate his 
thought, send it out without any accompanying doubt, which 
would be a counter vibration. 

If there is rapport, between two persons, there is that perfect 
communication from soul to soul that is capable of affecting their 
lives as much as audible interchange of ideas through conversa- 
tion would do. 

Faith in this method, that is, soul belief in the method on 
the part of operator and patient, is the first essential to success 
in mental therapeutics. The operator needs to have objective and 
subjective consciousness of the effort that he is making. His 
patient may, or may not, have objective knowledge of treatment 
being given him, and yet receive the healing suggestion, for his 
soul knows what is being done for him. Should he objectively 
know that a certain person, or persons had taken him under treat- 
ment, and he, with that mind, determine that there was no effi- 
cacy in it, that auto-suggestion would carry its full weight to 
the soul and shut off the possible benefits that might have resulted 
had the treatment been without his objective knowledge or with 
his objective co-operation. 

The operator should have a certain period daily, during which 
times he could and would give attention objectively to the formula- 
tion of the suggestions that he would have his patient receive. 

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These suggestions would be the same as he would give if his 
patient were in hearing of his voice. Formulating these sentences 
in the mind and then entering into some degree of passivity, 
having placed over his soul the suggestion to convey these impres- 
sions to his patient, is excellent practice. 

Confusion has arisen through ignorance of the fact that 
thought transference is not from mind to mind. Under the 
original ideas it was supposed that operator and patient must 
necessarily have the same hour, one to observe transmission and 
the other to be waiting, relaxed and passive, to receive the com- 
munication. 

We know now that the messages are received involuntarily 
and unconsciously, and are registered there by the transmitter, 
regardless of the activity of the patient at that particular moment. 
A fixed hour is not essential to be observed. 

It is a good measure, however, for the patient to have a period 
each day, in which he will likewise become passive and relaxed 
and contemplate the suggestions that he knows the operator has 
agreed to give thought in transmissions to him. 

In the passivity of the operator, in which he has formulated 
his suggestions and commanded his soul to send them forth, he 
has also given his soul force the suggestion to keep that person 
under treatment to unite his soul force with that of the patient, 
according to the patient's needs. When we appreciate the fact 
that the soul has a world of its own and is being drawn here and 
there in its communications, we will appreciate then that we are 
benefiting our patients constantly, whether we, at any particular 
moment objectively think of them or not. Just because we can 
give our souls the suggestion at any moment to carry these 
messages forward and the patient be treated through them, and it 
therefore becoming unnecessary to have a fixed hour agreed upon, 
does not make it any the less reprehensible to make such an agree- 
ment with a patient to observe a certain date and fail to keep it. 
The effect of that is to destroy the powers of the operator, because 
of his own dishonesty. 

The soul promptings are always for frankness, and no one is 
really deceived, except the man's own mind, for, if in rapport 
with his patient he has communicated his deceit, and were that 
patient to have a psychic reading, the revelation would be made 
to him of the infidelity of the operator who had agreed to give 
objective and subjective attention at a certain hour and did not do 
so, through willful neglect. 

The writer has never accepted any fees for absent treatment. 
He has kept his dates faithfully. The man who charges should 
certainly give the time, and not destroy his own faith by faith- 
lessness. This is like all other wrong thought, in that it brings 

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back in kind whatever goes out from the mind. The compen- 
satory vibration is absolutely certain. 

Then with the understanding that there must be perfect faith 
in the treatment on the part of the patient, or he must be uncon- 
scious of the treatment, and the operator must believe in the 
method and consciously and sub-consciously formulate and send 
the identical suggestions against the symptoms of his patient that 
he would if they were face to face and audible words spoken, the 
forms of which are sufficiently taught in chapters in the suggestive 
therapeutics part of the book. With ideal conditions, such as 
perfect faith on the part of operator and patient, results are in 
no sense haphazard. To look at the matter as it now stands, it is 
not at all satisfactory, but the lack of faith, which has been based 
upon an ignorance of how a suggestion could possibly annihilate 
distance may now be overcome, when it is understood that there 
is a medium of communication through ethereal molecular vibra- 
tion that is as practical and as natural as hearing a voice across 
a room, and perfect faith may take the place of the lack. 

Little dependence can be placed upon the great bulk of statis- 
tics that have been published by persons who claim such large 
successes in absent treating. These persons have made no allow- 
ance for the fact that in acute diseases, ninety per cent of patients 
recover in spite of drugs, thoughts, or anything else, because that 
vital force, the soul, is ever endeavoring to sustain physical and 
moral integrity, fulfilling its natural office, and there seems to 
be a natural course that some diseases will run. As a specialist, 
it has been very rare for me to have any occasion to treat acute 
diseases, and seldom had access to any chronics first-handed. 
Nearly all have been the rounds of various forms of treatment 
and pronounced incurable, and that sort of cases are under such 
auto-suggestions, beliefs based upon being told by every practi- 
tioner that they could not be cured, and I must say this is a 
very unfavorable condition under which to begin absent treatment, 
when the very conditions of successful absent treatment are that 
all auto-suggestion must be with perfect faith that the method 
will heal. In many instances where patients could not remain with 
me sufficiently long to complete the treatment, I have taught some 
member of his family how to give the suggestions in the passive 
state. This has been far more successful than to begin treatment 
and send the patient away to depend upon absent treatment. The 
principle, however, is correct, and with the spread of the knowl- 
edge of psychology, the rising generation will be getting practical 
results in a generous degree from absent treatment. 



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' •jl T seems that every good that has ever existed has been con- 

jj torted and evil, in some way, brought from it. The depart- 
^^ ment of psychology comprehending thought transference 
is no exception to the rule. Ignorance, as usual, is at the base 
of the wrong. 

Immediately upon the announcement and the demonstration 
that thought was transmitted from one and received by another, 
and that often healing was, without doubt, a result of such inter- 
change, it was promulgated that of course there was nothing to 
limit the power, and that if a thought could be a beneficent agent 
in the hands of a physician who desired to cure a patient, that it 
would be just as great a power, and could be exercised just as 
efiFectually by one with an evil intent. 

This has been a very unfortunate teaching, for the average 
person lets others do his thinking for him, and if he sees anything 
printed, that is satisfactory evidence to him that it is true. This 
book is written for those who would like to think. At the same 
time, if his experience has been limited, so much so that he could 
not answer intelligently why evil at the hands of evil would not 
be fruitful under the laws of thought transference, he can have 
my experience in that relation in the book. If the student were 
acute, he would have gotten from previous chapters, that which 
would have confirmed him in the assurance that a man cannot 
bring disaster through telepathy into the life of his enemy for the 
very reason that their enmity cuts off rapport, and for the second 
most potent reason that the soul of man is exercising its func- 
tions for sustaining an equilibrium, moral, physical, and is not 
so open to destructive agencies as to those that are uplifting. We 
have shown throughout all the book that rapport itself is based 
upon love and sympathy. I have spoken so frequently of the 
necessity for the receiver to be in attunement with the transmitter. 
A man is in no danger through thought transference, however 
powerful a concentrator his opponent might be, but he is in great 
danger through his friends, who are in rapport with him and send 
him the depressing, the unfavorable thought, and because of their 
perfect rapport plant the wrong expectancy in him. 

Again I am called upon to repeat the statement that we suffer 
most at the hands of our nearest and dearest, through their ignor- 
ance of the laws governing the psychic forces. The statement 
that I made in a lecture some time ago, that the nation probably 
was responsible for the death of Senator Hanna, which statement 
was published in the newspapers throughout the country, was 

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based upon the thousands upon thousands of his friends beUeving 
the unfavorable bulletins, and through their sympathetic rapport, 
caused the great preponderance of mental power to be on the 
negative side. 

When a man's soul is exercising to its fullest limit in its effort 
to keep the body tenantable, and receives a single discouraging 
suggestion from one powerful and sympathetic suggestor, who 
says there is no hope, and believes with all his soul that the 
patient will not recover, an obstacle has been put in the way that 
so increases physical and mental depression, that the resisting 
power is not adequate. If it be true that one or two persons 
near and dear, and therefore in close rapport with the patient, 
can add that which overburdens the vital force, what must be the 
effect upon the power within a man's body when, helpless and 
hopeless expectancy is poured into his soul by the thousands, as in 
the instance of a public personage? Had there been no reports of 
the senator's illness, or could they have been of a tenor to create 
an expectancy of recovery, there is good reasoning and science 
to justify the belief that he need not have died. If the senator 
had had one-half of the nation at enmity with him, and had they 
concentrated with all their powers, day and night, they could not 
have affected him in the least through their power, because the 
conditions of rapport were not complied with. 

However, we must see and take into proper consideration what 
the possibilities are through the ignorancce of the patient. The 
proposition in exactness is this : That if a man or a patient believe 
that his enemies have that power over him, and are exercising 
it, then he does come to a fulfillment and realization of the con- 
dition that corresponds to what he believes they are endeavoring 
to and are able to do. 

There have been thousands upon thousands of deaths even, to 
say nothing of disease and disaster, resulting from that auto- 
suggestion. Persons have experienced disease, disaster and death 
when they believed that a curse had been put upon them, and 
that an enemy, or a number of persons were exercising influences 
over them. 

There is just one means by which the twentieth century can 
pass back to reflect the sixteenth, and that certain way to fall 
back to that standard is to let it become a general belief that 
a person can be evilly influenced by his enemies. It is not a 
surprise that it is a man's own belief, and the expectancy of his 
own soul, that either blesses or curses him, for that is the law 
of the soul that that which it believes, it will bring into expres- 
sion. 

In the centuries, including the fifteenth and part of the seven- 
teenth, there were hundreds of thousands of persons burned 

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at the stake as witches. These witches, it was claimed, were in 
league with the devil. They were said to hold intimate relation- 
ships as his agents, and would have their midnight revels with 
him. Infants were snatched from their mother's arms and liter- 
ally torn to pieces because they were charged to be the agents 
of the evil one that was causing disease and death in that vicinity. 
Don't stop, but read on past the statement that I am about to 
make, that hundreds of people were ill and even died because of 
these so-called witches. 

It does not take much intelligence to know that it was not 
any actual power of the witches that caused any discomfiture, but 
it was the belief, fear upon the part of the one who ascribed to the 
witches that power over him. 

There are some people that pass for having some intelligence, 
and yet they are accepting a teaching as diabolical and untrue 
as the old ideas of witches, and that is when they believe and 
teach that a man's enemies can will him into misfortune. Let the 
belief become general that the telepathic power is such as to 
equip one for bringing misfortune into another's life, and upon 
every hand, we will find that whenever one is sick, is disappointed 
commercially, or meets with an accident, he will be ready to 
accuse some one that he thinks has had occasion to be displeased 
with him, and who might will him just such experiences. 

A man might plow through an icy slush of melting snow with 
wet feet all day, and at night go home and have a chill, followed 
by high temperature, subsequently developing a typical case of 
pneumonia, and ascribe it all to an evil thought of some enemy. 
This is just how rank some people have become. 

No one would likely suppose that in this book of exact science 
there is very much to concur with what has been termed Christian 
Science, but I do care enough for truth to prefer a defense of 
that cult when it has been misrepresented and is resting under 
a false and impossible charge. I might say that, as psychologists, 
we owe a great deal of the advancement of our interests to the 
demonstrations made by the Christian Scientists in which they 
have shown so conclusively that soul does preside over the body. 
They have cured by indirect suggestion, and it was an after- 
thought to clothe the idea in religious garments. 

While the manuscripts of this book are being prepared, there is 
a debate going on throughout various parts of the country, and 
through the journals, as to whether or not Mark Twain's recent 
illness was due to the mental influence that has been turned upon 
him systematically and intentionally by the Christian Science 
church, which he has mercilessly ridiculed. There are bodies of 
so-called religion that have split off from Eddyism that have been 
very earnest in their announcement that the Christian Scientists 

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agreed among themselves to, through the soul power, bring mis- 
fortune in the form of disease and other disappointment, to the 
prominent leaders of these splits. This is the means by which an 
impression has been spread abroad that telepathic communication 
through the evilly disposed, directed upon one whom he might 
want to bring evil to, gets just as great a harvest of results as a 
beneficent operator does. In a certain line he does get a prolific 
harvest, but it is always to himself. It is on the same old principle 
that the man that digs the pit will fall therein. It is a law of 
the soul that whatsoever a man sows, that shall he also reap, that 
is, the law of cause and effect, and the real science of it is this, 
the suggestion that you give another, spoken or in thought is 
received by your own soul, and it unconsciously and involuntarily, 
so far as your mind is concerned, brings your mind and body 
into those conditions and experiences that you suggest to another. 
A very literal demonstration of this principle was given me 
through a pupil of mine, who, in practicing treatment, had occa- 
sion to assist a man out of the habit of alcoholism. He was aim- 
ing to follow the formula that I had given him, in which he said 
to the man in the passive state : 

"Liquor, in any form, is nasty, filthy, nauseating stuff, and 
will be very repulsive to you, making you sick at your stomach 
even at sight of it and the odor of it will be intolerable to you. 
You will not want liquor, and you will not suffer any from giving 
it up." The operator was not an excessive drinker, but used it 
temperately, and he assures me that upon an effort to take his 
usual toddy he became so sick at his stomach that he had to give 
it up and could not drink it. 

The soul acts upon the principle that what you suggest to 
another must be the proper thing for yourself, or you would not 
give it to one of whom you are a part, and of course the prin- 
ciples of psychology, as here set forth, teach the common brother- 
hood of man. 

We will close this chapter with the final statement that there 
is no possibility of one with an evil intent bringing any disaster 
into the life of the object of his evil desire, except through the 
auto-suggestion of the person to whom he has directed his aim, 
in the form of the belief that his enemy has that power over him. 

Every agent, or any agent in the world, whether it be a chip, 
a pill, a potato, a rabbit's foot, a powder, a saint's bone, a man's 
big toe or his hand, a witch, a hypnotist, an enemy or a devil, has 
that power over one that that one ascribes to the agent. Then it 
is the belief in an evil or a beneficent power that determines 
which it shall be. 



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"^^ T cannot make a particle of difference to us, so far as in- Scientific 
jj spiration is concerned, whether Moses was mistaken when Inspiration 
^^ he thought that a force outside of himself told him what 
to do and how to act. It does not concern us at all whether Isaiah, 
or Solomon, or David were inspired by something outside them- 
selves, as far as practical psychology is concerned. I care not 
how you may interpret the phenomena of inspiration as expressed 
through these men, nor does it make any difference to us whether 
John on the Isle of Patmos, when he wrote the book of Revela- 
tions, was really inspired in the sense of a spirit outside his breath- 
ing through him ; it is no matter of ours so far as practical demon- 
stration is concerned. In all ages inspiration has been in evidence, 
and now science takes up the matter and says: "We will make 
inspiration or spirit breathing a thing of actual knowledge, of 
voluntary intention," and that is the sort of inspiration that we are 
prepared to deal with. The word means, of course, and we are 
not going to try to change its meaning, spirit breathing, or spirit 
making itself known or felt in some way or other. 

It does not behoove me in my work to try to take into con- 
sideration all the divisions of mind that are possible or that I 
am familiar with. In dealing with the question of the body, I 
speak of the physical organization which everybody is acquainted 
with. I do not mean to have to speak in every instance of its 
composition and its divisions into cells, molecules and atoms. It 
is understood that this body is capable of many subdivisions. 
That is when we are dealing purely with the physical. It is just 
the same way with the mind. The Hindoo psychologist finds 
seven very nice divisions, and many think that they find or have 
recognized something beyond what I have mentioned. They can't, 
for I use a word that includes all the departments of the mind. 
However, the matter of terms matters little. There need be but 
two divisions of mental expression through the human being; 
those two forms I have mentioned so often, that you know them, 
objective and subjective. In us there is the objective that every- 
body knows about, and there is the subjective with which we are 
getting acquainted. In that sub-conscious department or the soul 
there is inherent knowledge. There are means of acquiring 
knowledge there which was never obtained through the senses in 
any way, and being there, the question is, how are we going to 
get it out ? Bringing out of the soul its knowledge in any form of 
its expression, I may say, is inspiration, because it is the soul 
speaking through the physical and mental organism. It is the 

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simplest thing in the world that when you surround the word 
spirit with mysticism, that it seems like it would be utterly out 
of our range to expect to have inspiration, but now I propose 
to bring it here and use it here at will. 

Look, if you will, for a while at music and some of its inspired 
composers. I might take for illustration any other art just as 
well, or divide it, but you can find just as practical an illustration 
in Haydn and Handel and Beethoven and Mozart and Wagner, 
those masters of music, as you could if we went into a larger 
realm, and took a great number of masters in the different depart- 
ments. Every individual I have just mentioned, it is true, worked 
at his music, but, taking Handel as the first illustration, you will 
recall that his father was opposed to the child becoming a musi- 
cian — so opposed, in fact, that he put the instruments in the garret. 
But the mother and aunt were favorable to the child's desires to 
become a musician, and so when the father heard the music from a 
distance they said that it was spirits performing. This did not 
satisfy him, and upon close investigation he found Handel, the 
little child, making the music. And so by persistence on the part 
of the child, and deceit on the part of the relatives, for the father 
was determined to make a lawyer of him, and was not at all satis- 
fied with his being a musician, he developed into that genius who 
composed the ''Messiah" and other masterpieces. Even under 
these difficulties, as he proceeded in his musical career, his teach- 
ers, as also shown in the case of Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven, 
said when they began to teach him that "he knows music already ; 
he can interpret for us and teach us." The life of Handel is 
just one continuous testimonial for inspiration. What has his 
Messiah, his Saul, his Samson, or his Israel in Eg>'pt — what have 
they not done for the world? Those who have heard them ren- 
dered have a new inspiration from their souls. Do you get 
inspiration when you hear something rendered like those master- 
pieces from the music or the composer? Is it an outside power 
that gives something to you and uses your organization to express 
itself to the world? In other words, when you get inspiration, 
from what source do you get it ? What is the spirit that breathes 
through you when you hear the rendering of good music? What 
is music? It isn't simply sound with rhythm and dynamic vibra- 
tions — it is the expression of thought in that particular musical 
form inspiring me along the line in which my soul is working. 
The object is not to make music upon instruments, but to express 
thought in other form, and so there is not any one, I care not 
who he is or where he is, that can aft"ord to separate himself 
from music, because it is one of the universal methods of stimu- 
lating the soul to activity. It will stir me as nothing else will, 
although I am pleased with a good painting. 

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Haydn was on the same order as Handel in his marvelous 
production of oratorios. The Seasons will always be a master- 
piece. And yet, those children applied themselves you say. Yes, 
but supposing they did apply themselves; haven't many children 
applied themselves, or haven't you tried to apply them, without 
the production even of harmony, let alone the actual composition, 
while here was Haydn particularly who was composing before he 
was seven. When the father and sister, the sister a few years 
older, were playing, here was this boy sitting there with sticks 
to represent the violin, but he was keeping perfect time, was im- 
proving upon the time. As I have said before, if there is a strong 
spiritual gift within you, it is striving for expression from infancy 
almost on. Most of us that had its strivings silenced in our earli- 
est childhood, never have had an opportunity to persist and culti- 
vate it, but, as I say, it is in the soul. That is where the music is. 

Mozart — to give his history would practically be to repeat so 
far as inspiration, father, and infantile development were con- 
cerned, for he was a child of a drunken father. His persistence 
was more commendable, possibly, for he worked under greater 
difficulties, but, anyway, all of these represent the same principle 
that within them there was something striving for expression, for 
it must be remembered that these composers did their marvelous 
work in their early life. 

I am coming presently to the practical features, the applica- 
tion for personal and present use. We can say these beautiful 
things and they have been said thousands of times, concerning 
these prodigies in music, who were called geniuses (and it is 
always true that wherever a man, an individual, has had an oppor- 
tunity to put his mind and body in that relationship to soul, that 
his soul can make free use of the body and mind, he appears as a 
genius), but there is not an individual but what is possessed of 
the same capacity, not along the line of music, perhaps, don't mis- 
understand me, but there is not an individual, I say, but what, 
if he would bring his body and his mind into the proper relation- 
ship to the soul that that department can use those organs for free 
expression, but will pass for a genius along the lines that he is 
prompted to follow. There is something that does prevail, or at a 
time has wanted to prevail, above any other quality or attribute 
of the soul, and if you have forgotten it or neglected it, bear this 
in mind that I tell you that there is just as much a Handel and a 
Haydn and a Mozart in existence today, and you can bring that 
knowledge or talent out of your souls through a much shorter 
course than beginning at the age of three and working away at 
instruments for the expression of music for a score of years. I 
am talking about what science has done in the way of psychology ; 
I am getting at the powers of the soul ; I am dealing with truths 

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about it. You would not be at all surprised if I told you that you 
can make just as good a ruby with chemicals, just because they 
have found out what high temperature can do, as the natural ones 
taken from the earth, so that in foreign countries they will not 
make a loan on rubies, for they can't tell whether they are genu- 
ine from the mines or are chemically produced. The reason that 
you have a continuous rail, if you have it in your city, is because 
of the discovery that through high temperature you can make the 
rail practically continuous as if it were just one rail, that they can 
unite them together, so securely that it is just like one long rail. 
Those things don't surprise you, and yet go back to the time of 
these musicians that I am speaking of, and talk about such 
things as that, and what would they think? It is only because 
you have become familiar with the physical advancements I am 
talking about that you have ceased to marvel. I am talking about 
that which is no more marvelous than the other when I tell you 
that we can with intent and purpose make a plan to bring out of 
the soul its capacity in the line that you may incline toward to 
as great an extent as these musicians that have been called 
geniuses or prodigies, and that you can take the most stupid 
person, if there is such a thing as stupid (objectively some of us 
don't get in very good touch with the world, don't interpret its 
lessons correctly; there are different powers of interpretation, 
and so we judge a man to be smart or dull according to his devel- 
opment in that direction, but the real truth is that there is no such 
thing as a really stupid person), or the one who is regarded as 
such, and apply the principles I am talking about, find the line 
of his inclination and apply the formula that I am going to give 
you and make him a genius in that direction. Some of our so- 
called fools have been geniuses, because their relations with the 
objective world were not perfect, and they did not pretend to 
make them perfect or pay any attention to the world, and there- 
fore the soul took the body and used it freely, and so fools have 
been known sometimes as geniuses. We propose to take people 
and develop them spiritually without necessarily robbing them of 
their senses. When it comes to Beethoven, who is, I suppose, 
always going to stand as a greatest marvel in musical inspiration, 
you will remember his history where his father determined to 
make a Mozart of him. His grandfather was a musician : his 
father was a man given to strong drink, but he knew what a furore 
had been created by Mozart and he said: "My son. you have to 
be a Mozart." And so, at all times of the night this child was 
dragged out of bed and compelled to practice music. After 
awhile he had the fondness for it. but then what are we to con- 
clude concerning the inspiration of this child that had to have 
it beaten into him. Now, all the beatings that we have ever heard 

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of have never made any musicians. There must have been that 
inclination within the soul of this child to be a musician or rough 
treatment, such as dragging him out of bed and compelling him 
to play would never have made what we know of Beethoven. 
His immortal Nine Symphonies — who can describe them ; who is 
there that can describe his feelings at the rendition of Beethoven's 
compositions ? And yet, master as he was, practically in his youth 
he produced these (and if you will notice, you will find that nearly 
all the masterpieces were put out in a marvelously short time. 
The Messiah, of Handel, composed in twenty-three days ! When 
the soul gets to work it does not count time the way we do. The 
difficulty with us is to let the soul express the way it should. But 
Beethoven — the marvelous about him is yet to come. H music 
had depended upon a cultivated, musical ear, either in its rendition 
or composition, Beethoven would have lost most of his reputation 
for the marvelous, for he never would have produced that at 
which we must be compelled to marvel, for he lost his hearing 
entirely after a very short time, and had no sense of harmony 
or discord from a physical standpoint, and yet his playing was so 
astonishing, so attractive, so powerful, that the musicians slyly 
gathered around that they might hear, and they were carried away 
as we possibly are not capable of being carried away; they could 
appreciate the music that Beethoven in his supposed privacy 
poured forth. Beethoven was very irritable and would not allow 
them to be present during his playing, and so sometimes through 
bribing the landlady musicians got into the adjoining room and 
heard him play. Sometimes he would, in the midst of playing 
grandly with both hands, not hearing a sound, stop with his right 
hand and go on with the other, and those who were out in the 
adjoining rooms hearing that bang, that thunder that was the re- 
sult of Beethoven dropping his idle hand, would know that not 
sensing the accord, he did not even note the discord. Beethoven 
was really hearing the music in his soul, not that of the piano. 

The marvelous thing is this that we can do without our senses 
and produce our best work. When we know how it is that blind 
people can move about the way they do and know so much, we 
will find that it is through the psychic sense of seeing. I know 
that in my early boyhood there was a blind man to whom they 
would take a horse that they were contemplating buying, and 
ask him to point out the blemishes. He would describe the color 
of the horse and tell them any defects, and I am convinced that 
we do not need so much the development of our objective senses 
as we might, provided we give an opportunity to the subjective 
department to rule the senses; that all sense of the objective sort 
that we have is only a suggestion, for it is imperfect. Think just 
for a moment what I mean. I regard the objective senses in their 

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imperfectness as only indications of what the subjective holds, and 
that it is only when the soul, or the sub-conscious department takes 
hold and controls the body and the mind that the results obtained 
are perfect. When the soul takes charge of the senses and uses 
them, then they are capable of their most perfect reception. That 
is what it means to let the soul have control, or getting into 
rapport with the soul. 

Well, I have said enough in the illustrations to show to you 
that inspiration's source is in the individual ; that all the practices 
of these prodigies in music was only to bring out the soul in 
them, and it was not in the power of the trained musicians to 
teach them, or put anything into their souls or their minds or 
their execution, more than to guide the execution, and if the 
music was not in the teachers, and if it was not the result of the 
generating of music through the teachers, then the source of the 
inspiration of the music must have been in those individuals' 
souls. They were not unlike us. Analyze them as you please, 
mentally and physically, and they could not be constituted different 
from the rest of us, and whatever attributes they possessed or 
whatever principles governed them, govern us. Just as long as we 
have an idea that inspiration is drawn from some outside force, 
and I admit that we have some excuse for the idea, we will not 
look for it within ourselves, for whenever you determine that any 
force is native outside of yourself the results are uncertain. You 
may get into rapport with a force outside of yourself and express 
knowledge that I possess through telepathy, there is a sense in 
which that is true, but it could not be controlled, it could not be 
scientific, for you might get some idea today and give expression 
to the knowledge gained in that way, and tomorrow you might 
be unable to get anything at all. Therefore, I say that just as long 
as you believe that the source of inspiration is outside of yourself, 
the results will be exceedingly whimsical. In your soul there is 
the power, the source. It is within yourself and whenever you 
do practice, if it is music, you are endeavoring to bring into outer 
expression that which is within yourself. The long tedium of 
practice, in other words, the conscious effort will bring you a 
result, a measure of success, but the objective method has never 
been, the purely objective method, successful in making anybody 
even superior, let alone a great genius. He had to ultimately 
adopt some formula by which his objective was put in abeyance. 
When Handel wrote the "Messiah'' he said that "God and Angels 
in Heaven" were before him. He saw those. I would not have 
you understand that I mean that he saw them in reality ; he used 
the highest terms that he could to indicate to you that what he 
saw and felt at that time was of the highest possible; that his 
ideals were high, and so he expressed them in the highest terms 

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of which he could conceive — "God and Angels in Heaven.'^ So 
here was Handel, who worked to a great ideal, was entirely ab- 
sorbed as Beethoven, in which he was doing. So I am right in 
saying that all of these marvels in their work of producing their 
masterpieces, got into the influence by which they lost all sense 
objectively, and that their mental and physical departments were 
used by the subjective or soul in expressing that which was within. 
That is uniformly true. I have said in many ways that the richest 
lesson of our lives is to learn to bring the subjective into perfect 
mastership, or to get the mind and body to become perfect instru- 
ments of the subjective department. I have said in various ways 
for various purposes of illustration, that if the individual can get 
his mind and body into that relationship to the soul where the 
subjective or sub-conscious department of the mind can have 
perfect control, he is in a proper condition to receive inspiration. 
That is why I said that the largest lesson of life is to learn to 
get the mind and body into perfect obedience to the soul. All the 
practice that our stenographer went through in getting so that 
she could write on the machine was for the purpose of ultimately 
being able to say: "Well, my sub-conscious mind has perfect 
mastery over my body," and so she will sit at the machine and 
look over to one side and never see the keys at all and never make 
a mistake unless she looks at the keys. She hears it possibly, but 
she does not have to think about what her fingers are doing. But 
she went through months of practice, you say. What was she 
doing? Why, she was training her body, so that unconsciously 
and involuntarily she could strike the right keys on the machine, 
under the direction of her soul. You who are musicians, what are 
you doing? Could you ever learn to play if you had been watch- 
ing where you strike? Why no. The psychology of it all is that 
ultimately through your practice objectively, you give your sub- 
jective department, or soul, the mastery, and then you can play. 
And if an audience makes you conscious of yourself, you get to 
thinking about your fingers, and then you strike the wrong keys. 
Then it is true that the soul is the supreme power. 

All of these principles fall under the subject of inspiration, 
because it is spirit control, that is, your soul controlling the body 
and the objective mind — using them, and you simply went 
through all this practice to get to that point where that would be 
the condition. Now, under the advanced knowledge that we 
have under the science of psychology, the work is shortened so 
that the individual, instead of spending quite so many hours in 
his practice, will use part of that time in a mental converse with 
his soul. I am talking now with reference, not to the composer, 
but with regard to the rendition of music. Your conversation 
would be that you believe now that within yourself there is the 

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power that is the source of your conscious playing, and so you 
put your body into a relaxed state and your mind passive, under 
the suggestion that when you desire to play again, that the soul 
will use the mind and the body through which to express the 
music that is within it. Now, if you would use a half hour like 
that a day, I think you could put aside safely four or five hours' 
work practicing; I am sure that you could. I am sure, further, 
that the process of auto-suggestion will bring you to a state of 
excellence, but simply knowing it will not bring you anything — 
it is what you put into use that counts. If you follow that under 
auto-suggestion, you will get the results that I speak of. The 
better and rapid way is to become relaxed and passive and receive 
suggestions from another that you will have that perfect obedience 
objectively to your subjective department. This is all with refer- 
ence to some mechanical work. Now, then, I have said to-night 
that the soul is the source of perfect knowledge. The soul is the 
source of perfect knowledge to you, and it has been indicating 
to you a thousand times along what lines you are especially gifted. 
The knowledge is there and the power is there. We want you to 
get your mind and body into relationship to that sub-conscious 
department that it can have expression. You have glimpses here 
and there of some superior intelligence along that line, but when 
you tried to use it, it was gone. It is still there, but the best way 
in the world is to follow the formulas that I have given you to 
bring it out where you can recall it at will. The long process 
ultimately gives but a measure of efficiency, whereas by stimu- 
lating the soul to its mastership, we obtain results astonishing in 
their perfectness. If you will but fill its requirements, you can 
bring out inspiration, bring out of your soul its knowledge, its 
perfect knowledge along those lines which you aspire to have 
perfected. 

Soul has the perfect knowledge and perfect memory, and when 
it gives up out of its memory, isn't that inspiration? So I have 
told you to get into unison with the soul in all its departments, 
through passivity and suggestion, stimulating it into greater 
activity and expression. Perfection should be your ideal, whether 
it is music, art, painting, or whatever your tendency may be. and 
whatever that tendency is it should be cultivated, not exactly cul- 
tivating the tendency, but cultivating the mind and body, so that 
the soul can use them freely. 

Now, I don't want you to think that I would require that you 
be placed in the passive state and receive suggestions from a cer- 
tain individual. I have told you the general rule, and it is just as 
applicable in one case as another, for if you realize the power 
within yourself, and address yourself as you have been addressing 
an outside power, you will obtain the desired results. It is true 

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that this scientific study exalts men, but this is good and wise. 
Convince a man that he is a worm of the dust, a vile thing, and he 
demonstrates that he is; show him his Deific side, and he will 
manifest as a veritable God. Man, being the highest individual 
expression of spirit, whatever his source, it is honored by his 
grand expression, and shares in the glory with him. That source 
would not be jealous or injured or suffer loss however sublime 
the heights attained by man. I have no desire at all to deal with 
theology or man's source, but I care not what that source may be, 
if the man has glorified himself, he has glorified that source. 



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" Build thee more stately mansions, oh, my soul 
Leave thy low vaulted past ! 
Let each new temple nobler than the last. 
Lift thee to heaven with a dome more vast, 
Till thou at last art free. 
Leaving thine outgrown shell 
By life's unresting sea." —Holmes. 

^ ^1^ ITH the constant demand upon my time by patients and The Chemistry 
\jl/ the increasing requirements from the platform, I have and Psychology 
^^^ no time for studying statistics, but I am informed that of Love 
the number is ever increasing of men and women who desire to 
give marriage an absent treatment. 

I am thoroughly convinced that it is high time, in America at 
least, that we adopt love as a principle rather than love as a 
passion, and love in its purity rather than its policy. If it be true 
that the hosts who are desiring to become unmarried are enlarg- 
ing, then it is quite apparent that neither law nor religion can 
solve the problem of getting the marriage question settled. The 
psychologist does not believe that enactment of laws ever makes 
reforms in any line; nothing less than the knowledge that will 
change the inclination, desires and practices, will ever correct 
anything. He also believes that every force should be brought 
to bear upon education. Therefore, I propose to make the com- 
mon laws of the physical and mental plain. There is a guide 
herein for the prevention of mismating and also a formula for 
adjusting in each individual instance. 

Chemistry is the science that deals with the composition of 
matter. Psychology is the science of the soul, so our subject 
being the chemistry and psychology of love, it would be the rela- 
tionship of the composition of the body and the soul acting upon 
it through love. 

Magnetism will be the first department of our subject that I 
want to consider scientifically. When a piece of iron or steel is 
placed in a magnetic field of a dynamo, a peculiar polarization 
takes place by which one extremity of the metal will attract posi- 
tive and the other negative, because those ends become negative 
and positive. Each molecule of the metal seems to become so 
polarized, and the positives all pointing in the same direction 
constitute that peculiarity of the magnet. All matter has elec- 
tricity in some state or stage within it, and for that reason every- 
body attracts every other body, the positive in one attracting the 
negative in the other. These are the usual expressions, but 
what really takes place is under the law that everything in the 

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universe that is possessed of something that is blessed is making 
the effort to impart its beneficent quaUties to every receptive and 
responsive other member of the universe. Upon this principle, 
when a piece of iron is brought into proximity with a magnet, 
which, owing to its properties, is at a certain vibratory rate, fulfills 
its law of imparting its wave lengths and speed to the unmagnet- 
ized iron. Under this process the latter also becomes a magnet. 

When two individuals, as a young gentleman and a young 
lady, come into proximity to each other, they may find a very 
pleasurable thrilling sensation pass over them. They have both 
read the novels, that in a very intense way described the sensa- 
tions of the heroes and heroines of their stories, when the gentle- 
men had rescued from some form of death, which always involved 
the lady's falling into the arms of the young man, and therefore 
consider themselves well prepared to define the meaning of those 
sensations and to ascribe their source properly. 

Each one takes the self-suggestion down into their own souls 
that that is love's thrill, and the next is to suggest each to the 
other that is the correct interpretation of their feelings. Further 
association and limited separation intensifies all of those feelings 
that were more or less intense when they first looked into each 
other's eyes or clasped hands. The cultivation of the idea and 
the excitement of the body proceeds more or less rapidly, some- 
what according to the temperament, caution, or experience of one 
or both of the individuals. 

The fate of the unsophisticated is to become entirely enveloped 
in the wildest flames of which the body is capable. When this 
stage is reached, they are so overwhelmed by their feelings that 
they cannot consider the subject of mental or spiritual adapta- 
tion, agreement of nationality, or planes of their families. They 
have decided that they are in love, and that settles every question 
for them. 

What has actually taken place was that in their first discovery 
of pleasure in each other's presence or contact, they electrically 
affected each other and in the positive in one attracting the nega- 
tive in the other, under the laws of the magnet, each seeking to 
impart the qualities to the other that he or she had electrically, 
produced a very pleasurable sensation, purely magnetic and 
chemical, under the laws of physical magnetism and chemical 
affinity. The danger of the situation was in their mistaken inter- 
pretation as to the source of their glad feeling. After once sug- 
gesting each to himself and to each other that that is love, then 
since soul, which is suggestible and controls all the chemistry 
and other forces of the body, it would in answer to the suggestion 
proceed to make the bodies more intense, creating every molecule 
and cell in one body with such a chemical and electrical state 

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that would compel answer through the corresponding molecule 
and cell in the other. A fiery furnace is a fit comparison for the 
state of these two bodies, each demanding the other. Of course 
this scientific revelation will take the romance out of the great 
majority of the mating experiences, but in its ultimate, will make 
love more beautiful than it has ever appeared before, and love 
will be sought for, hoped for, aspired to, and more frequently 
found and its immortality recognized. 

As an actual fact, the cat and some other animals enjoy the 
contact and stroke, because of their magnetic discharge, when the 
hand approaches. The law by which many bodies undergo elec- 
trical interchanges imparts pleasure in all of those instances 
where there is given to one a supply of the element which it needs 
or draws from it the excess, so the danger is not in the magnetic 
exchange that might take place between two persons, or among 
a number as for that, but is in the interpretation of the sensation 
to be characteristic of love; it is the first suggestion, not the 
contact. 

If a lady and gentleman knew they were attracted to each 
other by the most common force, which is present in all matter, 
they would hardly come to the conclusion that that was love in 
any true sense, capable of uniting the masculine and feminine 
spirits. It would occur to them that a union of soul would 
scarcely begin in the chemistry of the body. Their logic would 
hardly lead them to determine that electrical discharges would 
develop into the harmonies of unifying love. Some practical 
reminders of what happens when they have misinterpreted the 
attraction that begins in the physical and continues in the physical 
until every cell is in agony of unrest dependent upon the impart- 
ing from the other's body that which would give poise or bal- 
ance to the physical forces. The suggestible souls under the 
hallucination of love causes the mind such bewilderment that 
finally the contract is entered into, in which they promise to fulfill 
that union which was, as they think, intended from the beginning 
of creation, and will last throughout all eternity, fully satisfied 
that the proof is adequate in the pleasure they have felt in their 
association. 

So the ceremony is said, but, true to the laws of magnetism 
and chemistry, in their more constant association, they become 
of the same rate of vibration, and also, like the magnet, when 
it has imparted all of its qualities, and made a magnet of another 
iron, which it drew to it at first, then repellantly fell away from 
it later, so do these two persons prove their union was based upon 
the physical forces and first their bodies cease to attract, then 
repel each other, and the minds likewise, and the suggestions now 
begin, which are the reverse of those taken and exchanged in 

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the early days of attraction. No longer the thrill in the embrace 
or the kiss, then one or the other makes the first declaration that 
love never existed. The opposite one accepts that suggestion, 
his body responds to that, and they proceed to build their chem- 
istry and their magnetism accordingly. They emphasize the sug- 
gestion of their mental and spiritual unfitness for each other, 
and, being perfectly ignorant of the basis of their first attrac- 
tion, they must wonder how it is changing into repulsion. 

This being a type of the majority of marriages, and prob- 
ably the very great majority, I would hardly leave the matter 
without remedy, but I first want to think for awhile about love. 
Thus far I have only spoken of what has been called love, and 
that misinterpretation of the sensations that grew out of the 
physical forces has become the standard and is the sought for 
in the teachings from about every source. Those who have 
studied the previous chapters of this book, especially that con- 
cerning the effect of the emotions upon the chemistry of the 
body, would recognize at once that the so-called love had its 
origin in the exterior. That sort of emotion belongs in the same 
grade with jealousy, anger, and hate, because all of those have 
their beginning first in an appeal to the senses, and works in 
upon the soul and involves it in intensifying the untoward emo- 
tion. That which begins in the senses and reaches the soul 
reverses all the good, and therefore I would have no confidence 
in what was said to be love, that began in intense physical excite- 
ment, even if you call that attraction. If beginning in the senses 
and carrying the delusion of love to the soul is not the right 
order, then what would be the natural force and origin of love? 
In studying the attributes of the soul we find among its native 
qualities love. Now, there could not be a great many loves any 
more than there are two forces represented when light in a 
building and power in the streets are manifested, but they are 
two forms of expression of the same force, so love expresses 
itself in many forms, including that that exists between the man 
and his true complement. The recognition upon the part of two 
such persons is not dependent upon sense perception in any way. 
They would love and know they loved, even if all the objective 
senses were in abeyance or lost. Like other psychic perceptions, 
its description is practically impossible. When I speak of psy- 
chic colors, the term has no meaning unless one has experienced 
psychic colors. It is therefore not probable that anyone can 
convey to another the exact methods of discernment, as to what 
love will seem like when they find it. However, since it is to 
spring out of the soul, one needs not to be educated objectively 
concerning it, or be looking for its signs. One thing is certain, 
the symptoms of wild physical excitement and attraction are 

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not the evidence that one should either look for or take as proving 
they had found the right one. Since love has its origin in the 
soul and union first takes place there involuntarily, and as soul 
is controller and even creator of the body, certainly all the body 
in its chemistry, as well as all other forces, passes under the influ- 
ence of the soul's love, and entire union is the normal result, 
and that is the union which physical laws or spiritual could 
never divorce. This love solves every problem, answers every 
possible question as to how to be happy though married; how 
to manage all the affairs of daily life, companionably, not com- 
petitively. I have named this last state as love. I will leave 
you to name that under the other description, which is at best 
only a travesty, but is so usual that I will indicate how to make 
the best of it. 

There are charlatans in almost every city that are getting rich 
through advertising to separate the united and unite the sepa- 
rated. The demand for their services is said to be increasing. 
Very often where the charlatan fails, the individual takes the 
matter into his own hands to make an exchange. All of these 
things, as well as the divorce courts, prove the basis of union 
was under chemical, magnetic and other physical forces, but if 
union has taken place, even under mistake, or even where the 
parents would seem to have made a good sale of the daughter 
in securing for her a rich husband, still she was a party to the 
mistake, and there must be an adjustment of these situations. 
Marriages that took place under the physical laws satisfied the 
individuals at first; they remained satisfied until physical repul- 
sion under satisfied chemistry and magnetism took place, and 
they began to suggest to each other that love was dying. Absol- 
utely every word of this book proves that the soul is absolute over 
all that the individual is, and that is controllable by suggestion 
through the will of the individual. Under this law, then, if all 
such people knew that they could maintain the attraction between 
them, instead of exchanging the suggestion of getting further 
apart, they would by all the powers of their wills drive into their 
souls the suggestion of co-operation and of union, and under 
the creative law of the soul, each would actually, by changes 
made, convert the other into his ideal. This, of course, would 
require their mutual co-operation. Neither one or the other 
could compel the full union to be attained. Any husband and 
wife that know these laws will have no excuse for separation. 
I have stated here without limitation that the soul of the indi- 
vidual is superior to all that individual is, and the reason I have 
often referred to its creative power is to impress upon you that 
regeneration of the body, and even of the character, can be accom- 
plished through its power and law. Whatever there might be 

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in planetary condition, or however correct a specialist's assur- 
ance that a certain couple were of such temperaments that they 
never could harmonize, I say in spite of all that, including heredity 
or any other thing that could be thought capable of preventing 
the harmonious and successful lives of the husband and wife, even 
though they united first under mistaken ideas, still applying the 
principles of the New Psychology, they can become happy through 
perfect union. 

The value of love a man gives to woman; ''a gift treasured 
more highly than life in the body, has been given into the keeping 
of woman by man. She recognizing the sacredness of the gift, 
placed it immediately into the sanctuary of her soul, where a 
shrine had been prepared and held in readiness for it. 

"What is so unearthly, so beautiful, as the first birth of a 
woman's love ? The air of heaven is not purer in its wander- 
ings, its sunshine not more holy in its warmth." 

To love one soul for its beauty and grace and truth is to open 
the way to appreciate all beautiful and true and gracious souls, 
and to recognize spiritual beauty wherever it is seen. 



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•^^^ HOSE earnest persons who are seeking all that this book The Mother 
\^ could mean to them will find the soul's laws as they apply ^^^ H^^ 
^^^ in the guidance of children ; how suggestion is a factor in Child 
the child's forming of habits, desirable or undesirable; how that 
the repetition of a thought or act upon the part of the child results 
in that particular thing taking place afterwards involuntarily un- 
der the law that habit is stamped in the department of character, 
which acts spontaneously. If that habit be to neglect one depart- 
ment of education when it should have fondness for that particu- 
lar study, so as to master it and have a well rounded out education, 
or has acquired the habit of making grimaces, or saying words 
or imitating the manners that are unbecoming, then, as stated, 
this book has in various ways outlined the formulas for giving 
the suggestions to the child that eradicate all the undesirable 
and create a fondness for that which it needs to like. It will be 
remembered that the parent has best access to the child, because 
she can have a heart to heart talk with the child at retiring time, 
when the mother may change her song into words directed in 
the passivity of the child, directly to the latter's soul, commanding 
the literal changes desired, and establishing the standards that 
when they come into fulfillment, the realization will have taken 
place of the mother's highest ideal concerning that child in any 
phase of its physical, or its spiritual or mental department. These 
subjects having been so clearly presented, I need not repeat 
further upon that department of the relationship of the mother 
and child during its rearing. This chapter is to reveal the laws 
and practices by which in days to come an entire race may become 
even perfect physically, mentally and spiritually. 

I have no occasion to discuss the evolution of the race, but I 
do want to think awhile of how every man evolves from a single 
cell, or from two cells, one the germ, the other the ^%g. In other 
chapters I have shown that our physical laboratories of histology 
have given us the understanding of how all of the tissues of the 
body are made up of the little physical structures we call cells, 
that in their aggregate comprise our chemical organization and 
our psychological laboratory has revealed that every cell is pos- 
sessed of intelligence, the collative energy of which comprises 
a mind possessed of its central system; therefore we have in each 
cell an intelligent being capable of communicating intelligently 
with all of its fellows, or through the central mental organiza- 
tion receive communications. The foregoing would make it very 
apparent how suggestions are conveyed in our therapeutic work 

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to the cells of any tissue, and their chemistry modified through the 
effect of mind acting upon the cells. 

We may take the first pair of cells; let there be three such 
pairs, and place them all in the same environment; one develops 
into a star-fish and the other into a crustacean, and the third 
one into a vertebrate, and yet under every sort of analysis they 
show to be identical. Then we should know at once that what- 
ever was conveyed from the parents was in the spirit not the 
matter of these cells. The heredity of habit, the conveyance of 
nature and characteristics we must see could not be in the chem- 
istry, but in the mind of these new individuals. If the parents 
of a pair of cells that develop into a man had lived under the 
laws, impressing their own characters only with the natures and 
habits that would have been strictly ideal in the child, then that 
offspring could manifest nothing less than that. The student of 
this book cannot return to a situation by which he could avail 
himself of such fortunate knowledge upon the part of his parents, 
and so we take the situation as we find it, as every practical man 
must, and begin providing for a better condition for our succes- 
sors. The wife cannot possibly in a brief period of time eradicate 
from the character of her husband that which might not be ideal 
and has been placed there by his ancestry and cultivation, but 
she has it absolutely in her power to see that none of those condi- 
tions either hers or her husbands, physically or spiritually, that 
are not ideal, shall be present in her child. The unborn child 
is in the same relationship to her organization that any of the 
cells of any tissue of her body have ever been, and that is, to be 
susceptible to intelligent communicating, that builds the chemical 
elements into the body, determines the arrangement of those 
cells into organs, stamps the impress of function upon those 
organs, so that all that a child is in its aggregate of physical 
cells, the mother through her sub-conscious department, builds, 
and since the sub-conscious department is responsive to the ideals 
that may be formed in the objective reasoning of her mind, so can 
there be special impresses to prevent deformities or deficiencies 
and build in perfection and beauty of physical form. Just as she 
would impress her soul to build perfect harmony in that child's 
body, so can she, and so should she, deliberately and with intent, 
build the character of that child after the highest conceptions that 
even a mother could formulate with reference to a grand and 
glorious nature. Now, prayer addressed to some power outside 
has not succeeded in giving either beauty of body or character, 
simply because the law is that one should have absolute intellec- 
tual trust toward her own soul, as the power that builds the child 
in all of its departments, and that soul of hers will look to her 
mind, objective, as the architect. 

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^^OT only for accuracy, but to have a common ground of 
J / understanding, it is necessary to distinguish between attri- 
^ butes of the objective mind and those of the soul, or sub- 
jective. Through the function of the senses data is gathered 
from the objective world, and by the same conscious or intellec- 
tual or objective department we come to our conclusions upon any 
subject and we think as we contemplate the matter that it is 
correct, and therefore we believe. This is an operation of the 
objective mind that forms the conclusion and registers its de- 
cision and its belief in the soul. The soul is suggestible and 
accepts the decision and acts under the influence of the mind's 
belief and that which was belief of the mind becomes faith in 
the soul. This idea that is so registered in the soul, because the 
soul is responsive in all of its different departments, including 
the creative, that it will build a reality to conform to the idea 
implanted. 

Hope is comprised of two elements. Of course it is an attri- 
bute of the soul, and its largeness depends upon the degree of 
expectancy that the soul may hold in any direction, providing 
there is a degree of desire present. Just as water requires the 
two elements, hydrogen and oxygen, and we would not say oxygen 
when we meant water, nor hydrogen when we meant either oxy- 
gen or water. Just in the same way we would not say we hope 
for something when we desired it, but did not expect it, or that we 
hope for something that we expected, which was very undesirable. 
As really scientific psychologists, there should be an evenness be- 
tween desire and expectation; that is, we should not expect the 
undesirable, nor desire without expecting the fulfillment. 

We often meet with individuals who are all wrought up over 
something that they expect will happen to them, which will be 
very disastrous to their comfort or interests. It becomes an all- 
consuming thought; it is the only thing they can speak of, and 
the only varying they have from the expectancy of the main dis- 
aster is when they think of a whole lot of less important things 
that they expect to happen that are not wanted. It seems that 
every great fear has a large following of numerous lesser fears. 
Ultimately their whole life may become dominated by the fear 
and expectancy of tragedy or disaster or disappointment. If this 
fear pertains to something that individuals might do, then it is 
evident to my reader that under the law of telepathy, the very 
thought itself may have made the introduction into the soul and 
mind of the individual's fear, placed there by one who is fearful. 

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and Trust 
Psychologically 
Speaking 



The New Psychology 

Ideas that never would have occurred to them to have done, but 
the forceful soul activity of the one who is expectant of evil 
compels them to think and to act under the impulse of the vic- 
tim. In the above we have a demonstration of the direct fulfill- 
ment of the law by which we bring to us that which we fear. If 
we get a suggestion through a wrong diagnosis or in any way 
that a disease exists in the body, our fear puts the soul to work 
to make the chemical, or functional changes to fulfill that ex- 
pectancy. We fear we will not succeed in our undertakings, 
and so confuse the soul that it prevents our proper reasoning, 
causes us mis-steps, or takes the vitality out of our bodies and 
we fail. All of this shows great faith in some power to defeat 
our happiness and they used to personify that power by the 
name, — *'Devil." Scientifically we know it is the power of the 
individual soul acting under the laws of telepathy, creation, or 
confusion. We would not say we hoped for any of these things. 
We see an individual in a state of illness, despair, defeat in 
which he would give all the world to remedy and so desire is 
intense, but he does not expect realization or he may have in- 
tense desires to obtain a result or possession of something — it 
matters not at all what this is all of his desiring capacity is at its 
utmost, but he does not expect the fulfillment of his desires and 
again we cannot use the word hope in the place of desire, nor can 
we use the word hope except to represent desire and expectation 
both and yet hope is the most vital element — it must be possessed 
to ever regain health either moral or physical — to make pro- 
gress in any department of culture, to fulfill any of our ideas. 

Before one can possibly have fear to the extent indicated in 
the above he must believe there are powers that are able to 
bring such misfortune — to have such intense desires with no ex- 
pectation to have them realized one must be without faith either 
in the power or its beneficence that could or would bring the an- 
swer. Then to have hope (desire and expectation) one must be- 
lieve there is a power that is able and willing to bring him that 
which he desires for he could then hope for the blessing he 
craves. In hundreds of ways we have proven the soul is that 
power — that the individual in his subjective department is pos- 
sessed of all power so far as the person and his affairs are con- 
cerned; that the soul acts under the impulse and through the 
impulse of faith, providing the individual faithfully desires and 
expects (hopes) but it does require one more act upon the part 
of the individual's will or intellect and that is to trust. We now 
have Faith, Hope and Trust in their true scientific relationship 
— we must believe in our souls as having the power; we must 
both desire and expect but finally we must surrender all trustingly 
to the Power, the soul, and the hope will be realized. This is law 

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and therefore the ideal as indicated in the suggestion, not that 
one flashes across his mind, but that one Hves will become rea- 
lized. This is the faith and hope and trust that all men have 
talked about but none have ever had perfect when they thought 
the power that could be reached through their minds was outside 
of themselves. This accurate knowledge of laws under which 
the power operates will enable one to fulfill the vital part of 
trust as has never been before demonstrated. 

Here is an exact formula by which to obtain results. It is 
the same whether it pertain to some material thing or spiritual. 
Suppose I desire that my lecture upon Faith and Hope and 
Trust shall be true in all of its principles and stand the test of 
every light that can be thrown upon it through any man's experi- 
ence and I desire that to come from my soul, that is by inspiration 
for I assume my soul knows. To me to desire anything is to 
expect it also. I have a period of moments or minutes or several 
times during a day or maybe more, during which I give intense 
thought to the aspiration to bring out of my soul its holdings 
upon this matter. Finally I have thought intensely enough and 
then I sit down and relax and become passive under the sugges- 
tion that I am now entrusting the whole matter to the soul to 
bring fulfillment and will leave it in its care. If I have hope and 
I have faith I will altogether trust and here is where we usually 
fail, is in perfect trust. I would show a lack of perfect trust if 
after I had said I would leave it to my soul I would be anxious 
in my mind and worry lest I would fail to get response to my 
command to my soul and this worry would defeat the results 
because it would confuse the soul that demands perfect trust. 
Leaving it all to the sub-conscious and it uses its inherent knowl- 
edge, its telepathy, its perfect memory, its foreknowledge and so 
when I speak it uses my body to tell its truths. Under faith and 
hope and trust you have the cure for diseases for the perfection 
of the physical, for the building of character — only remember it 
is building, not delivering into form in an instant out of nothing 
but that it operates under law but that the soul is altogether equal 
to all the conceptions of the individual and as the conception 
enlarges it demonstrates more and more power. The best and it 
is all we need to do is to believe in the soul as the power (be- 
lieve with our minds, hope for what we want, expect nothing 
we would not desire, trust to that power to answer to our aspira- 
tions, execute absolutely everything that we are prompted to do 
and we have every facility and will have every blessing in fulfill- 
ment. 



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